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.
