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A KILRUSH Town Councillor has called for an extension to the town boundary and an investigation in to the possibility of increasing the local authorities power.
Cllr Tom Prenderville (FF), be- lieves now is the time to prepare a preliminary report on “the feasibility of seeking ministerial approval for an extension to the town boundary.”
‘From a social and economic view point the town is extending to the west, south and east,” he said.
“There is a lot of building going on. There are new estates being built on the periphery of the town that will need services. It would make more
sense for those people to be looked after by the town council.”
He pointed also to the further de- velopment at the edge of the town such as Tesco.
“And there are going to be more there in the next five to ten years.”
He said that now was the time as work begins on the new Kilrush Town Plan, to look to the future and look at the costs of such an extension of the boundary and local powers.
Cllr Prenderville said that within the next 20 years he could hope to see the town council become a dis- trict council.
“Ennis, Shannon ad Kilrush need to be able to expand and a good discus- sion document is needed,” he added.