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The amount of money being spent on planning enforcement by Castlebar Town Council was questioned at the annual budget meeting of the local authority this week.

Three local water schemes in the county have been issued with disconnection notices.

County councillors reacted angrily to the fact that lands which have been zoned in the county under the Mayo County Development Plan, may have to be dezoned, under a new Planning and Development Act 2010.

A number of Castlebar town councillors expressed their displeasure with the amount of planning enforcement being carried out by the council, at the monthly meeting of the local authority this week.

Fears by a number of traders in the Ellison Street area of Castlebar, that the street would become a one way street once the rejuvenation works in the town were completed, were allayed at a meeting of Castlebar Town Council this week.

Ballinrobe based councillor Michael Burke has hit out at costs people must pay to connect their homes to services provided by Mayo County Council, on top of contributions to services and the bond that is levied on new developments after planning approval.

Castlebar town manager Seamus Granahan told the Mayo Advertiser this week that while works were slow on the refurbishment of the town centre the pace would be picked up by the crews working on the refurbishment. The slow progress of the works had drawn a number of complaints from traders, and the issue was raised at the monthly meeting of the local town council by a number of councillors.

Fine Gael councillor Tom Connolly handed over a petition signed by 702 people from Claremorris calling on the council to bring in a one hour free parking for on street parking in the town. “The people are moving away from the town centre to do their shopping to the big supermarkets because they offer free parking,” Cllr Connolly told the meeting. “Mayo County Council will have to look at making some kind of concession or the middle of the town will close down and there will be no rates coming in from the rate payers.”

Claremorris Electoral area briefs

The Fine Gael party in Castlebar has not made any deal with Fianna Fáil councillor Blackie Gavin to get him to support former town councillor Kevin Guthrie’s appointment to a vacant post on Mayo VEC, according to Cllr Ger Deere. The post, which was vacated by Fine Gael councillor Noreen Heston when she resigned from the VEC in March, was filled by former Mayor of Castlebar, Kevin Guthrie, on Tuesday night when he beat fellow nominee Tony Deffley by five votes to four in council chamber. “I can categorically deny that any deal has been done with Cllr Gavin in relation to him supporting Kevin Guthrie for the post in the VEC,” Cllr Deere said. “He made up his own mind in relation to it and thinks Kevin Guthrie is the best person for the position.”