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19 January 2012
Forde regrets €3.4m road green light
GREEN PARTY Councillor Danny Forde has expressed his regret at Wexford Borough Councils decision to continue with 20-year-old “road to nowhere” construction plan which will cost €3.4m.
Commenting on the recent inclusion in its 2012 Budget of “the most expensive development ever to be undertaken by Wexford Borough Council”, Cllr. Forde said: “To commence a €3.4 million road building project in the fourth year of a severe economic downturn, while reducing expenditure in all Council service areas, is a regrettable throwback to the excessive spend and credit frenzy of the Celtic Tiger years and a defiant snub to the business and local community.”
Cllr. Forde went on to say that the €3.4 million link road, which was originally designed to open up rezoned agricultural land to service a housing development in excess of 500 units between Carricklawn on the Newtown Road and Park on the old Ferrycarrig Road, will be a financial noose around the neck of both Council, ratepayers and every person living within the Borough, well beyond the hoped for economic upswing.
He added that “the addition of 500 houses to an already severely depressed market will ensure the continuation of extreme low house prices as outlined in the recent national house price survey, showing house prices in County Wexford having dropped further than any other county since 2007.
“Using local rates and rental income, from Council properties, to complete the project is cynical in the extreme,” he said.
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