Street funding for Borrisokane

 

Street and pavement enhancements in Borrisokane are among the 170 projects included in the €10 million Town and Village Renewal Scheme announced by the Government last week.

Borrisokane is to receive €97,500 under the scheme while Templemore will receive €40,000. Tipperary Town, Carrick on Suir and Cahir are also among the Tipp towns to benefit from the scheme.

 

The funding, which was announced last Friday by Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Heather Humphreys, has been warmly welcomed by Tipperary TD Michael Lowry. Having made strong representations to Minister Humphreys on behalf of all applications from Tipperary Co Council, Deputy Lowry welcomed the inclusion of five Tipperary towns in the scheme.

 

“The funding awarded to these five towns and villages in Tipperary will be used for a number of different projects, identified by the Tipperary Co Council in conjunction with local councillors and community groups,” he said. “This funding will greatly assist in projects such as improving footpaths, public plazas, visual landscaping and tourism amenities.”

 

A total of €380,000 has been allocated to Tipperary in this scheme. In Borrisokane, €97,500 will be spent on street and pavement enhancements. Templemore is to get €40,000 as part of its landscape development plan. The funding, which is being allocated through Tipperary Co Council, will meet up to 85% of the total cost of each project.

 

Deputy Lowry said: “This funding will be vital to the achievement of the projects chosen for investment under this scheme. I welcome this funding for Tipperary, which is something I have been campaigning for since it was first announced.”

 

Funding awarded to each individual town and village under the 2016 scheme ranges from €17,000 to €100,000. The funding is being used for a wide variety of projects identified by local authorities in conjunction with local community groups and businesses, including improving playgrounds and footpaths, tourism amenities, public art pieces and a wide range of works to improve the streetscape and public realm of towns and villages nationwide, to help make them more attractive and more sustainable places in which to live and work.