Please God we are all fortunate to have children who get to go to college, but we want them to come back and they want to come back. If there were high-quality jobs in rural areas, that would allow them to come back. HOW DOES RURAL Ireland rejuvenate its towns?
The towns chosen for the scheme were Boyle, Co Roscommon; Callan, Co Kilkenny; Ballinrobe, Co Mayo; Banagher, Co Offaly; Castleblayney, Co Monaghan; Cappoquin, Co Waterford. Firstly, measures at addressing vacant sites was required – whether that’s through levying property owners who leave sites vacant or incentivising them to bring it back into use. Furthermore, local jobs in centres away from the outskirts in towns has also been identified.
In terms of the “key problems to address”, the council was clear that much needed to change if Cappoquin was to attract people back to living in the town centre again, such as a lack of economic activity in the centre already and a lack of housing available for people to live in.In Ballinrobe, Mayo County Council noted that if the problems there were solved it could provide a template for how other towns solve the problem of vacant town centres.
Architects have worked on this analysis and have met with property owners to discuss redevelopment of the area.
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