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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 new EU Partnership Project will have huge benefits for Kilkenny over the next decade and could also mean the introduction of further pedestrian zones for the Marble City.

Eviction may be a fear facing some home-owners right now but in Ballyhaunis a worse fate awaits a number of families whose homes are set to be bulldozed to the ground by Mayo County Council.

With a focus on the visual enhancement of Moate’s Main Street, a draft local area plan for Moate was set in motion this week. Members of the public now have six weeks to make submissions on the plan.

The prospect of Tesco or any other supermarket giant coming to Callan looks highly unlikely according to Kilkenny County Manager Joe Crockett.

Plans to develop a Strategic Development Zone at Ireland West Airport are progressing, a meeting of the Swinford electoral area committee heard this week.

The Local Area Plans for Graiguenamanagh, Callan, Castlecomer and Thomastown were passed at this month’s meeting of Kilkenny County Council.

Members of Mayo County Council’s planning and economic development SPC proposed a draft Supplementary Development Contribution Scheme at Monday’s meeting, with the scheme to now go before Mayo County Council next Monday for consideration.

A shopping centre planned for Ferrybank in south Kilkenny has been given a further 3,000 square foot for development use, by members of Kilkenny County Council.

Planning applications were down over a third in the Claremorris electoral area for the three month period of January to March 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Senior planner for Mayo County Council John McMyler gave the elected members the number on foot of a request at the previous month’s meetings. He informed the members: “In the first three months of 2008 there were 500 planning applications on file in this area, and this year for the same period there are 314 applications, that’s a drop of around 37 per cent.”