Council to consider 'working' LAP document

Kildare's councillors will consider the working document of the Kilcullen Draft Local Area Plan today before the document goes to public consultation on 19 March, writes Brian Byrne.

The Athy Area councillors have been perusing the document since last week, and the Area chairman Ivan Keatley will be briefed in advance of today's full Council meeting by the county's planners on the implications of detail of the working draft.

Public consultation will finish on April 29, after which time all submissions will be considered. Following a Manager's Report, the Draft LAP will be brought back to the Council in July.

The LAP sets out the planning and development objectives of the Council for the designated area, in line with the objectives of the County Development Plan 2011-2017.

The last Kilcullen LAP was adopted in 2008. It can be downloaded here by anyone who wants to compare it to the Draft which will go on view in March.