By Dan Walsh at the January meeting of Wexford County Council
The Local Authority Integration Team (LAIT) will meet next month to consider the Ukraine Refurbishment Programme for Co. Wexford and letters of consent have been issued for three properties in Wexford town, three properties in Enniscorthy town and district and a new project for Ryland Road, Bunclody.
This information was announced to elected members today (Monday) at the January meeting of Wexford County Council held in the Council Chamber, Carricklawn, Wexford. Cllr John Fleming, Cathaoirleach, was in the chair.
It was stated that the LAIT “continues to place displaced Ukrainian families who are Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection Orders (BTPO’s) in properties across Wexford, in both rural and urban areas.”
Unity Square is the new title for the old Garda Station on Roche’s Road in Wexford town and it is expected to have an occupancy of 57 and a completion date of December 2024.
The site became a vacant building when the new Garda Headquarters opened at The Folly, Mulgannon, in 2017. The OPW-owned property at Roches’s Road which included the station measuring 440 square metres and two semi-detached houses of 75 square metres each along with a yard and outbuildings, and was sold to a County Wexford buyer by auctioneers Sherry Fitzgerald Radford for €150,000 more than the original guide price.
Later, the OPW instructed the auctioneers to place it on the open market with a guide price of €650,000. Last March, the property was sold at auction for €800,000.
Other Wexford town properties include numbers 94,96 and 98 Main Street, the former Colman Doyle properties with an occupancy of 58, and properties at numbers 1 and 2, Michael Street, Wexford town, has plans to accommodate a total of 19. April and September, the completion dates here!
The old Ulster Bank site at 22, Rafter Street, Enniscorthy (15), and Borrmount Lodge, Borrmount Village, Bree, (37), first recorded here on WexfordLocal.com (see September 14th 2023 report on the website) are expecting completion in April and June
Templeshannon House in Enniscorthy is earmarked for an occupancy of 15, and the completion date is March, while a new project at Ryland Road, Bunclody, will have an occupancy of 21 from April.
While it is anticipated that engagement with the public may improve, the general view is that communications will consist solely of information, but the policies are in place, and it will be no more than a token gesture. Private arrangements! It is going to be a difficult year for our elected representatives and the relationship of support as the local authority elections are just four months away!
WexfordLocal.com 