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A conservation plan is to be developed for the Old Kilbride Graveyard, whose ownership has been transferred to Wicklow County Council. Claire Lawless, district administrator, confirmed to elected members that the ownership of the Kilbride Graveyard site had been transferred to the local authority. €20,000 had been set aside in this year s budget to develop a conservation plan for the graveyard, which would then be used as the basis going forward to apply for heritage funding or grants. Councillor Sylvester Bourke (FG) said he sits on the Tus project committee and understood it would remain in place until further arrangements were made. He also asked the district to look into the extension of the local authority s insurance to cover the graveyard. ....
Frustration is mounting that the contract to build the Arklow wastewater treatment plant (WwTP) has not yet been signed, as a government project tracker puts the cost range for the entire project at between €100 million and €250 million. Irish Water is waiting for approval from the Minister for Housing to sign a contract for the development of the Arklow WwTP as the project s cost is greater than €20 million. The pricetag for the development of the new plant at the Old Wallboard Factory site was estimated at €30 million in 2015. However, a spokesperson for Irish Water told this paper that the €30 million figure was the preliminary cost of building the WwTP and did not include the full scope of the works . ....
A coastal erosion plan commissioned by Irish Rail will cost in the region of €145 million to carry out works along the coastline from Bray to the Murrough in Wicklow town. Iarnród Éireann commissioned Arup to review the Irish Coastal Protection Strategy Study (ICPSS) and revise and forecast erosion rates for the coastline from Ringsend to Wicklow town. Irish Rail extended the study to Arklow as Wicklow County Council was interested. Marc Devereux, senior engineer, Environmental Section, provided the elected members with a presentation of the study findings at Monday s meeting of Wicklow County Council. The plans fit in with Wicklow County Council s Climate Action and the Department of Transport has approved funding for Irish Rail to progress the project from Merrion Gates in Dublin to Wicklow town. ....