A total of 23 people attended the Development Plan 2020-2026 Information Evening in Ballyragget on Tuesday evening, 22nd May. The purpose of the evening, chaired by KCLR’s John Purcell, was to introduce the recently published Issues Paper, to provide some interesting perspectives on some of the issues raised in the paper and to highlight the period for submissions to the paper which runs until 5pm on the 15th of June 2018.  The two specific themes discussed were Economic Development and Land Use and Transportation. The presentations are available here (links to YouTube):

1 Dev Plan Overview Nicolaas Louw, Forward Planning, Kilkenny County Council

2. Land Use and Transportation – Owen Shinkwin, National Transport Authority

3. Economic Development  -Brid Hynes, Economic Development, Kilkenny County Council

Discussion 22.5.2018