Patrick Carey, my parents Joan and Gerald Carey, are current residents at [redacted] Listowel, County Kerry. They have been residents at the said address for over 40 years.
When the new county development is adopted including the Chapters specifically related to Listowel i.e. Vol. 2 Chapter 3, will this supersede the current Listowel Town Development Plan (2009-2015) as Extended & Varied (Variations 1, 2 &3) ?
Some or any of the above topics, although not limited to these topics eg Gas, mains, sewer mains replacement or installation can involve road pening activities. This can lead to temporary road a closures. Roads can be as large as regional roads or as small as back lane roads/thoroughfares.
The reason I ask the above, is in the Town of Listowel, in what would be considered the town centre, there are eldery and vulnerable peolpe living ,which can be cut off while such works as envisaged in this Chapter are brought to fruition. Its is incumbant on the Executive Function of KCC and/or agents/contractors or indeed any agency granted a Road Opening license to be cognisant of this. Road closures, be they done under the 1993 Road Closure Act or any other legislative vehicle as distinct from Temporay stop/go one ways systems, impact the day to day living of residents directly impacted and should not be treated as a minor inconvience or indifference by either the Reserved Function or Executive Function of KCC.
In response to the two questions above can I request operational procedures/manuals be referenced in the response.
I do not agree with KCC planned exclusion of most of the county, particularly North Kerry from the Kerry Hub and the Kerry Knowledge Triangle, being the area designated by KCC to locate future industry and Information Technology. It comes across as an Apartheid system set up and is inequitable and unfair not to give equal opportunity to all areas of the county to prosper.
I do not agree with KCC plan to increase the population inside the Kerry Hib to the detriment of the rest of the county as will result in more depopulation and Loss of services in those areas outside the hub. In addition, we have seen at a national level where imbalanced development has led one part of the country being over concentrated i.e., Dublin. Do we want a similar result in Kerry?