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Planning in Fingal

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  • 23-10-2010 1:22am
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    Corsendonk
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    Just was reading this weeks edition of the Fingal Indo this evening and noticed they had an interesting exclusive buried within the paper relating to a behind closed doors meeting held between the council manager and the councillors were he "warned against a pattern of voting that saw them again and again reject the advice of planners". The meeting was prompted "by a raft of motions to include one-off rural homes in the latest draft of the plan and several motions aimed at rezoning rural land". Labour also critised the pattern of voting " accusing FF, FG and some independent councillors of an unholy alliance" going on further to state that some fellow councillors are "engaging in speculative rezoning and the destruction and erosian of our green belt and countryside". Certain councillors took offence to the tone used by the Council Manager with one witness reporting that councillors were "barked at like children" at the briefing.

    So is this a case of councillers interfering with the careful and professionally constructed long term planning of Fingal in aid of gaining votes in the next election? It is worrying if it is as this sounds exactly like the issues that we have had in the past in Fingal were local politics comes at the expense of the greater good. Delays also have a time and monetary knock on effect to the council plans for Fingal and so to the citizens ultimately.

    Or

    Is the Unelected Council Manager really directing the running of the council while councillors are just an expensive talking shop. From comments made from posters that attended the Eirgrid meetings local Fingal Councillors that attended demonstrated a severe ignorance of the actions of the Council Manager which would be a major worry. So is he really the power behind the throne running the council and deciding the future of Fingal with little or no input from the Councillors and there constituents?


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