A Department of Integration response to an issue raised by the Chair of Clare County Council’s Housing Committee has been branded “an insult to public representatives in Clare”. Clare County Council recently called on the Government to “have consideration” for tourism-dependent business in the county, whose trade has suffered due to reduced availability of tourism […]
There are calls for the entirety of county Clare to be designated as a Rent Pressure Zone. As of last week, Ennis is now officially a Rent Pressure Zone due to rents having increased by more than 7% over the last five quarters. This means any further increase in rent in the county town cannot […]
On Monday’s Morning Focus, Clare FM’s Daragh Dolan reported from the Francis Street Alliance March. A mass crowd of demonstrators departed from Glór car park on Saturday in an attempt to prevent the demolition of six houses in the county town to make way for a temporary car park under the Ennis 2040 plan. Daragh […]
The Chair of Clare County Council’s Housing Committee says a greater focus on affordable housing is needed locally in 2023. The Department of Housing and the local authority’s understood to be working on two such schemes for this county coming into the new year. Minister Darragh O’ Brien has pledged funding if a project is […]
There are no plans to deliver affordable housing for county Clare until 2025 at the earliest. Documentation from Housing Minister Darragh O’ Brien, seen by Clare FM, says Clare County Council intends to deliver 131 affordable houses in this county before the end of 2026. It’s emerged the local authority has ‘not made formal applications’ […]