Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report 2013

charlemont

There does not appear to be any threads about this so here goes..

The proposed new council's correspond to these new LEA's so the link below with the map should give people a good idea what these boundaries will be. As I stated some months back I was in favour of most of the planned changes with the exception of Waterford and Limerick cities being merged with their county councils but now I'm unsure..

Link with map..
http://www.thejournal.ie/council-elections-boundaries-2014-931336-May2013/

woodoo

Its a pity it results in more Councillors overall.

charlemont

woodoo wrote: »

Its a pity it results in more Councillors overall.

This link explains it a lot better..
http://www.newstalk.ie/Do-you-agree-with-the-Council-boundary-overhaul

"councillors reduced from 1,627 to 949 councillors,"
It will result in more councillers for Dublin but given its size that's only right but for the rest of the country there will be a reduction, Well needed too as too many chefs spoil the broth...

Hopefully once Cork City council is looked at in the next years it should merge with the Ballincollig Carrigaline area.. Maybe eventually the east of the Shannon area may be merged with Limerick City north if they can extend the city boundary into Clare.

Cody Pomeray

I notice with some alarm that Dublin's south inner city has been 'wiped off the map'.

nesf

charlemont wrote: »

Hopefully once Cork City council is looked at in the next years it should merge with the Ballincollig Carrigaline area.. Maybe eventually the east of the Shannon area may be merged with Limerick City north if they can extend the city boundary into Clare.

Well the current Cork City Council boundaries are nonsense. The line between city and county council is well inside the line between dense urban development and rural areas in much of the fringes of the city. You can have two estates beside each other, both obviously part of the same urban area and the first served by city council services and the second by county services.

charlemont

nesf wrote: »

Well the current Cork City Council boundaries are nonsense. The line between city and county council is well inside the line between dense urban development and rural areas in much of the fringes of the city. You can have two estates beside each other, both obviously part of the same urban area and the first served by city council services and the second by county services.

That is very true, It makes no sense to have leave it as it is, Too much squabbling between the city and the council over the matter. There is a fairly good online map at the bottom of the link showing the city council's preferred boundary, Hopefully it works out.

http://www.corkcity.ie/news/archivednews2007/boundary_extension.pdf

Bards

Waterford city one is crap also, we have large parts of county waterford now in the city, but the area only a stones throw from the city centre is still in kilkenny, crazy situation and should have been rectified when the new boundaries were being drafted, but as usual Hogan interferred in the process by tying the commisioners hands so that they could not recommed the right option.

We will also have in waterford a crazy situation where the council offices will be spilt between Dungarvan and the City, so the gravy train contiues for councillors and their expenses travelling between the two centres for meetings.

expectationlost

big increase in councillors in dublin

RainyDay

Looks like Dun Laoghaire are finding it hard to squeeze in all those new councillors;

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/planned-changes-to-d%C3%BAn-laoghaire-county-hall-criticised-as-architectural-vandalism-1.1417112