Recently elected Fianna Fáil councillor, Shane McGuinness has welcomed the news that that there is a planning application imminent which will look for permission to build a range of new services in Raynoldstown Village in Haggardstown.
According to Cllr. McGuinness the planning application will include plans to build a new supermarket, large medical centre, chemist, restaurant and a large crèche which he says the people of the area have been crying out for. Haggardstown has grown exponentially over the last decade in particular with developments including Raynoldstown Village, Earlsfort and Marlmount adding thousands to the local population in recent years.
However, while houses have been built, amenities for the extra influx of people have not followed suit and that was one of McGuinness’s main gripes when he was chairman of Haggardstown Tidy Towns.
“I’ve been giving out about the lack of local amenities, roads, lighting, lack of footpaths etc for a number of years now and I’m delighted that we have a planning application coming in the next week or so which will look to solve some of those issues by bringing a new supermarket, crèche, medical centre, restaurant and chemist to this area. I think the people of Haggardstown have been crying out for a development like this and it was raised to me on numerous occasions when I was out canvassing for the local elections,” stated Cllr. McGuinness.
“This will also alleviate some of the pressure on Blackrock and it is very good news for the locality. We don’t have a bus route going east to west through Haggardstown and that’s another issue that needs looking at and now that I’m a sitting councillor hopefully we can get things moving quicker to improve the lives of people in this area,” he added.
