Customers of new Portlaoise shop want safer pedestrian crossing
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A new shop opened in Portlaoise is getting so many customers that an upgrade has been requested for the pedestrian crossing near it.
There are safety concerns for children and adults using the crossing to get to the shop which is on the busy Mountrath / Limerick road in the Laois capital town.
The pedestrian crossing has no lights or signage to warn drivers in advance.
Cllr Caroline Dwane Stanley has requested Laois County Council to carry out a road safety audit, at Boughlone pedestrian crossing.
“I’ve had residents from Maryborough Village and Bellingham on to me. The fact that the shop is open is great and they are making great use of it.
Water roadworks created Christmas sewerage overflow in Portlaoise
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Hot tarmac spilling into the public sewerage system by Irish Water contractors in Portlaoise, created a Christmas nightmare for a Portlaoise family.
The family were reportedly left with raw sewerage overflowing in their home, no water and no heating for several days over the festive season.
The cause was big coagulated lumps of cold tarmac that had blocked up the pipes between Newpark and Lake Glen, on the N80 Mountmellick road (see photo). Tar the road, not the sewerage system, was the advice of an exasperated Cllr Caroline Dwane Stanley, who recounted the incident at the January meeting of the Portlaoise Municipal District.
‘Half full half empty’ view of a report on ambitious Portlaoise development led by Laois council
Housing: Council gives update on Stradbally Road lands
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A pilot scheme incorporating social, cost rental and affordable to purchase housing should be instituted for land that the Council bought on the Stradbally road, Cllr Caroline Dwane-Stanley stated at the Portlaoise Municipal District meeting.
Cllr Dwane Stanley was speaking on her own motion calling for such a scheme in the development of Tyrrells land.
€1 million revamp of Portlaoise halting site
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The only Traveller halting site in Portlaoise is to get a €1 million upgrade for the one extended family who live there.
Oak Park halting site in Knockmay is beside Clonminam industrial estate.
The only residents are one extended Traveller family who have lived there for nearly 25 years.
Laois County Council plans to rejuvenate the 1.15 hectare site which is off the R945 between Clonminam and the Mountrath road.
They will build four two bay halting sites each with a 4.6 square metre day house that will have a shower room, laundry store and family room. The development includes foul and surface water drainage works and footpaths.