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Irish Independent
25-07-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
Over 2,000 people submit ideas for long-derelict Tipperary site
The Goldcrop site in Carrick-on-Suir has been derelict for a number of years, and was bought by Tipperary County Council in 2022. Last month, a public consultation opened on plans for the 2.7 acre Goldcrop site in Carrick-on-Suir, with officials in the Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District (MD) and Tipperary County Council seeking opinions from the public on what the future of the site should be. At the July meeting of the Carrick-on-Suir MD, councillors were told by the district administrator that there had been over 2,000 responses to the public consultation online and in hard copy. "On the Goldcrop feasibility and concept design, the survey closed on June 30 and we had 1,976 online responses, and 84 hard copy surveys which were an exact copy of the online,' councillors at the meeting were told. Consultants on the project will now review all the data on the site over the years, and will present a plan to councillors in September, it is hoped. "The consultants now are taking all that information, they ran that survey where they hold all the data, and they're working on a report taking account of that survey, all the previous public consultations, all of the statutory reports, the local area plans, the flooding and environmental reports and they will bring all of this together and it will be presented to the elected members in a workshop along with draft concept designs and then that will go out for further public consultation,' the district administrator said. Reddy Architecture + Urbanism were appointed by Tipperary County Council to carry out the feasibility study as part of the Carrick-on-Suir Riverside Regeneration project. Carrick-on-Suir's regeneration project is co funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the EU Just Transition Fund, which aims to transform tourism across eight counties in Ireland's Hidden Heartlands and Ireland's Ancient East by diversifying the local economy and providing new employment opportunities for workers and communities.
Irish Independent
23-05-2025
- General
- Irish Independent
Popular Tipperary landmark to get new lease of life with funding allocated for restoration
The Town Clock in Carrick-on-Suir has been awarded funding under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme for upgrade works to the landmark. The local landmark has fallen into disrepair in recent years, with councillor Kieran Bourke raising the issue at past meetings. At the May meeting of the Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District (MD), it was confirmed that €9,000 in funding had been allocated to carry out works on the town's landmark. The Carrick-on-Suir MD have also allocated €10,000 towards the project from their municipal funding allowance. Plans for the restoration works on the clock are now complete, with the National Monuments Service also having been served with notice of intention to carry out works. The next step, councillors were informed at May's MD meeting, is for a bat survey to be carried out to ensure that any works on the landmark don't disturb any bats that may be living within the clock itself. Works to provide safe access for anyone working on the clock will be the first to take place, followed by getting the clock itself working again, as well as restoration works to the timber louvres that sit on top of the clock tower. Works on the masonry and the leadwork on the historic clock will be carried out at a later date, subject to additional funding from the Built Heritage Investment Scheme, councillors at the meeting were also informed. "It's a slow process, even the National Monuments Service, we must stand down for two months before we do what's in the notification, but in the meantime we'll get the bat survey done and and get all the works done, but it's lined up,' the district administrator told the meeting.
