Local councillor says plan to enhance Offaly side of Portarlington is needed

Fianna Fail Cllr Eddie Fitzpatrick says the Offaly side of Portarlington is seeking to secure funding under the town and village renewal scheme for a project development plan for the area.

This follows on from a meeting last week between the area engineers and members of the Tidy Towns committee held in Portarlington to discuss the future development from the Barrow Bridge to the Na Cluainte Estate on the Tullamore Rd.

Funding under this scheme would enable a consultant engineer to provide a master plan for the town which would hopefully deliver street enhancement works, traffic management control and the provision of cycle lanes along with the undergrounding of electric cables and the provision of new LED street lights.

Cllr Fitzpatrick says "a total of 750,000 euro has been allocated through the local property tax revenue and it's now important that a proper plan be put in place to enhance Patrick Street , Kilmalogue and Gracefield whereby people travelling through the town will not recognize or distinguish that they are passing through Offaly and Laois but Portarlington as a town."