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An Bord Pleanala will debate this September whether growing vegetables is agriculture or not. A Galway case has been appealed to An Bord Pleanala following a decision by Galway City Council that a change from livestock to horticulture constituted a change of use. We have become so used to livestock grazing every field that any other form of food production feels and looks wrong to some people.

There will be no increase in the Local Property Tax (LPT) rate for Westmeath householders in 2022 it has been confirmed.

Athlone Deputy Mayor, Cllr Aengus O'Rourke, has welcomed a decision taken by government to introduce new streamlined arrangements for large scale residential developments (LSRDs) to replace strategic housing developments (SHDs) which restores decision making to local authorities.

The break-in into the pop-up Covid-19 test centre at the former St Aloysius College in Athlone has been described as the “lowest of the low” and “disgusting” by public representatives this week.

RONAN FAGAN

Cllr Colette Connolly is the new elected Mayor of the Galway City Council.

Construction of the largest residential development in Athlone will commence within six months following formal approval by An Bord Pleanála for a Strategic Housing Development of 576 dwellings at Lissywollen and Kilnafaddoge.

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Deputy Mayor Cllr Colette Connolly wants the gardai and the Galway City Council to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the increasing problem of the appropriation of public space to facilitate drinking.