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Seeking funds for a facelift
Tuam petitions Government to finance regeneration of local estate
BY DECLAN TIERNEY A DETAILED submission has the estate would look like once the been made to the Government project was completed. It provided seeking funding for a major a very different image of housing regeneration programme Gilmartin Road. for Tuam. Representatives from Cluid, If successful, it would mean who provide voluntary housing in that Galway County Council both Tuam and Galway city, said would be liaising with a voluntary that they would undertake the housing group as part of major revamp project once the funding was in of a run-down estate. place. They would also provide There have been calls to carry their share of funding for the project. out a regeneration programme on Gilmartin Road which is mainly It is the view of Cllr. Killilea that occupied by members of the Travelling Galway County Council do not community. have the financial resources to Now it has been learned that a carry out repairs to some of these submission has gone from Galway houses which have been left in a County Council seeking funding dilapidated state by previous tenants. so that a voluntary housing organisation can move in and carry He said that it was unacceptable out major works. that there were so many And it has been learned that it houses boarded up in both could involve the construction of Gilmartin Road in Tuam and also almost 60 houses in place of the in the Parkmore Estate on the 26 that could either be demolished or renovated. All of the Dublin Road. But the Fianna Fail councillor houses have substantial gardens added that there were local authority to the rear. Many of these have become houses in Coroftn and dumping grounds for litter. other villages in North Galway in Cllr. Donagh Killilea of Fianna a similar condition and could also Fail said that a response was expected do with a regeneration programme. within a couple of months and expressed the hope that it would be positive. He said that the fact that there are 24 boarded up houses in the estate and means that a regeneration programme needs to be carried out. It is the view of Cllr. Killilea that the estate can be regenerated and that boarded up houses can be utilised by families on the housing waiting list. The Cluid voluntary housing organisation made a presentation to the old Tuam Town Council with regard to how they would carry out a regeneration programme. They even provided impressed members with an image of what
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