Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has claimed that the recent revised planning application submitted by Suntec Developments Ltd in place of its original application for 81 apartments on the Herbert Rd in Bray represents an ‘improvement’.
De Burca made her comments in response to information from an Bord Pleanala which included a ‘revised proposal’ submitted [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has welcomed an Bord Pleanala’s announcement of a date for the reopening of the Oral Hearing into the controversial development for Greystones Harbour and North Beach.
“The dates for the reopened oral hearing are the 29th and 30th March in the Royal Hotel Bray” says de Burca. “This will give [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca has welcomed news of a planning application that has recently been made to Wicklow County Council by a private individual for a Sewage Treatment Plant at Ballyraine Lower, Arklow. The planning application was advertised in a national newspaper and specified that the proposed plant would cater for a population [...]

Councillors on Wicklow County Council recently voted to allow Bray Town Council to make the Order. The order will then have to be referred to an Bord Pleanala and go out for public consultation.
According to Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, the achievement of an SAAO for Bray Head was one of the key objectives [...]

At a recent meeting of Wicklow County Council, Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca questioned the proposed location of a new water resevoir for Enniskerry at Killegar which contains several local dumps, some of them illegal.
De Burca said that the village of Enniskerry desperately needed a new water supply source and that she welcomed any [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has welcomed the recent decision of Wicklow County Councillors to allow for the web-casting of future council meetings. “This will mean that members of the public will be able to access recordings of council meetings on the Wicklow County Council’s website” says de Burca.
“I put a motion down two [...]

Green Party councillors on Bray Town Council have criticised the way in which a new mast has been erected on Bray Garda station without any consultation with the local authority or its planners.
Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, says that the new mast that has been erected on the Garda station is heavier than the [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has said that she is extremely concerned about the lack of planning for the provision of primary schools in the Wicklow Town area.
De Burca has called on the new Wicklow Town Development Plan, currently being drawn up by Wicklow Town Council, to make much greater provision for sites for [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has welcomed Wicklow County Council’s advertisement for the provision of Media/Communication Consultancy services to the local authority.
De Burca says that the advertisement of the service is a vindication of the position which she and other councillors took on Wicklow County Council when they discovered that a media consultant had [...]