Residents' fury over houses plan

GALWAY City Council has moved to assure outraged Corrib Park residents that no decision has been taken to build new houses within the estate, and a meeting planned for next month is merely to get their feedback on a preliminary draft plan.Residents were up in arms last week after receiving an unsigned letter from the local authority on Good Friday, inviting them to attend a meeting on Thursday, April 10 to view a preliminary draft plan for six terraced houses, which would be located next to the one-story houses within the Westside housing estate.Local Councillor Pádraig Conneely (FG) said residents were up in arms about plans to build these new houses on open space within the 37-yearold estate, which already consists of 300 houses. “Corrib Park is an older, settled estate; and certainly I’m outraged that the Council would want to build houses on amenity lands,” he said. Cllr Conneely said residents had approached him in the last fewweeks, when .....................