Allenwood Playground Public Consultation

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…

Final Greenway Submission

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…

Local Election Nomination

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/….

Grand Canal Greenway

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.

Playgrounds in North West Kildare (2018)

At the public meeting I hosted in order to get the Allenwood Playground project moving again, I presented some statistics regarding the availability of playgrounds to the communities of North West Kildare. These figures are available in the presentation at Allenwood Playground Public Meeting. Today, I am providing a map showing all existing playgrounds and those…

Kildare Newbridge MD Meeting

Today I attended the Kildare Newbridge Municipal District meeting for September in Kildare County Council. Allenwood Playground was on the agenda, along with some other local issues. The update for Allenwood playground mentioned the current design phase as I wrote about at Architect selected for Allenwood Playground. A proposed playground in Robertstown was also mentioned and…

West Kildare Fine Gael

Last Monday night, 10th September, the new West Kildare Branch of Fine Gael was launched in Glennons of Allenwood. The formation meeting was chaired by Martin Heydon T.D. Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party, and attended also by Cllr. Mark Stafford and Cllr. Brendan Weld. Deputy Heydon and Cllr. Stafford have been very supportive…

Road Repairs Allenwood South

Kildare County have a scheme called Green Kilometre where you nominate a section of road that you are going to maintain. See http://www.kildare.ie/CountyCouncil/Environment/GreenKilometreScheme/ for more information on this interesting scheme. I nominated a section of the main road to Lullymore near my home, on behalf of Allenwood Tidy Towns. A few weeks ago, I was out…