A great response this weekend to our call to action from Allenwood Tidy Towns and Ballyteague Community Text Alert to clean up the northern road by Ballyteague Forest. This was done as part of the An Taisce National Spring Clean and Kildare County Council’s Lilywhite Cleanup Day. Situated midway between Nursery Road in Allenwood South…
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Yesterday was the deadline for the receipt of public submissions in relation to the Planning Application for Allenwood Playground. I wrote and submitted a report on behalf of our playground group. The primary request from the Allenwood Tidy Towns Playground group was that the playground be designed with inclusiveness in mind. We asked that the…
The dangerous situation regarding pedestrian crossing points at Allenwood Cross is regularly brought up at our Tidy Towns and Scoil Mhuire Parents Association meetings. In March 2017, my colleague Cllr. Mark Stafford raised the issue at a council meeting and it was agreed to install cameras to monitor the junction and assess what needs to be…
I have been leading the Allenwood Playground project for a couple of years now. Today, a significant milestone was announced. Kildare County Council announced that the Part 8 planning process for Allenwood Community Playground has commenced. Allenwood Tidy Towns have been working with the council and a group of interested members of the community to…
Yesterday, I submitted my report on the proposed Grand Canal Greenway. I received a lot of great feedback through my online form, by email, over WhatsApp, on Facebook Messenger and by talking to people on the doorsteps. I believe I have captured all that feedback in my submission, which is available at the bottom of…
I’ve started delivering a flyer this week to residents of Killina and Allenwood seeking their feedback on the proposed Grand Canal Greenway. I’ve had a couple of common topics come up already and I will write about them today.
I am proud to have been selected as a candidate in the Local Elections next May for the Clane Local Electoral Area. The selection convention was held in the Westgrove Hotel, Clane, last night. I was nominated by the new West Kildare branch that we formed in September this year, which I wrote about in https://brendanwyse.ie/2018/09/12/west-kildare-fine-gael/….
Kildare County Council have announced an exciting new project to build a 40 kilometre Greenway along the Grand Canal in Kildare. Details of the plan are available on the council website. A planning application has already been submitted and detailed drawings are available.
I was recently informed of a possible issue with the current capacity of the Allenwood Waste Water Treatment Plant. Following investigation, I have now discovered that the housing developments in progress in Allenwood will overload the plant. Cllr. Mark Stafford raised the issue on my behalf with both Kildare County Council and Irish Water recently….
Earlier this year, the contractors working on behalf of Irish Water removed some kerbing near Cushalla in Allenwood. I reported the issue and wrote it about it at https://brendanwyse.ie/2018/08/02/kerbs-removed-during-road-works/. Cllr. Mark Stafford raised a motion on my behalf, in relation to the issue, at the October council meeting. I see that the kerbing has now been…