Community resolution on the cards for controversial speed limit reduction sought for Breaffy village, Castlebar
Community resolution on the cards for controversial speed limit reduction sought for Breaffy village, Castlebar
Breaffy Community Council is, despite a pandemic, engaging with local people to secure their views on the speed limit option on offer at present along the N60 road that runs through Breaffy village.
For many years the local community has been campaigning for a reduction of the speed limits through the busy village, outside Castlebar. They wanted a 60 km per hour speed limit imposed, but Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) refuses to concur and instead is offering a reduction of the 100 km speed limit at present, to be reduced to 80km, with 60 km speed limits in operation at school opening/closing times.
Henry Boot announces changes to its Senior Management Team and Executive Committee Henry Boot announces that Simon Carr of Henry Boot Construction (HBC) and Giles Boot of Banner Plant (BP) will be retiring from their roles as Managing Director (MD) on the 30 June 2021, following long and successful careers with the Group. In their current roles, Simon delivered over a billion pounds of construction activity and increased statutory profit tenfold, with Giles repositioning BP client base and order book from an internal hire supplier to a business generating 94% of its turnover from the open market. Henry Boot thank them for both their hard work and significant contribution to the Group and wish them well in their well-deserved retirement.
Metcalfe Plant Hire created a new ‘nurture garden’ for the pupils of Yanwath Primary School. The Penrith-based company s team had heard that the school wanted to develop their outdoor space, so offered their services to help them redevelop a used area of the playing field. Working alongside the Parent and Teachers Association (PTA) for the school, they did all the necessary groundworks for the new outdoor space, put up fencing and tidied up the playing field. The PTA also laid bark, built planters and added wooden seating and a fire pit. Cate Floyd, the school s headteacher, said: “There is no doubt that the pandemic has had a huge impact on young children.
Two 80t Kobelco CKE800G crawler cranes, on hire from Q Crane & Plant Hire, were used for the construction of the new £20.5m First Light cultural centre at the UK’s Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire.
The First Light Pavilion, the project’s centrepiece, will house an exhibition gallery, education areas, projection space, and café. The Pavilion’s dome construction required 381m3 of concrete, poured into a mould spanning 50m to create the single-structure roof. The continuous concrete pour–the first of its kind in over 25 years, according to Ryan Southern, project manager, Kier Construction–took 10 hours and 15 minutes to complete.
A BARNTON-based business is proud to announce that is has been featured in The Parliamentary Review for the second time. Ecogreen Plant Hire, which was founded in 2013 by Stuart and Dorothy Southern, provides the construction, quarrying and landfill industries with a unique, waterless wheel wash system to prevent mud from leaving sites and making a mess on roads. It has been featured as a best practice representative for the 2021 edition of The Parliamentary Review, a publication which looks at how key British organisations are responding to different political and economic challenges. Explaining the need for Ecogreen Plant Hire s waterless wheel wash system, the article explains: The rain that makes ours a green and pleasant land also has the unfortunate effect of turning construction sites into difficult and unpleasant bogs