Levering Up Leitrim Public Focus Groups

Levering Up Leitrim Public Focus Groups

Local Economic and Community Plan Public Consultation

“Leitrim’s on a roll … but we need to keep levering our County up.”

 

That was the key message from Frank Curran, Chair of Leitrim County Council’s newly-established front runner Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) as he launched the Committee’s preparation of a six-year Local and Community Plan for the County. Leitrim is one of the 10 pilot sites around the country and is now beginning the development phase for the 6 year Local and Community plan.

 

“Leitrim is now one of Ireland’s success stories,” Frank explained.

 

“After 150 years of continuous decline, the past twenty-odd years have seen our County’s population grow by a startling 22%.”

 

“That major turnaround didn’t happen by accident but was based on hard work and good planning. We’re proud of what’s been achieved but we want and need more of the same. That’s what our ‘Levering up Leitrim’ planning process is about.

 

Over the next three weeks Leitrim’s new LCDC will host three consultation events in the north, centre and south of the County. The events will be on Thursday 10 April at 6.30pm in the Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon, on Monday 14 April at 6.30pm in The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton and on Wednesday 16 April, again at 6.30pm in the New Community School, Ballinamore

 

The consultation evenings will focus on a range of issues.

 

“We want to hear people’s views on jobs, training, services, health, community, culture, heritage, volunteering, social and community infrastructure and education,” Frank continued. “We’re particularly interested in people’s thoughts on what we might call ‘Post-Tiger Leitrim.’

 

“We don’t live our lives in separate bubbles or compartments so we want to produce a Plan that reflects all aspects of community life here,” he concluded.

 

Each consultation event will be facilitated and everyone attending will be ‘kept in the loop’ in terms of how the Plan will be taken forward.

 

Leitrim LCDC’s planning process will be short, sharp and inclusive. The more people who turn up to the consultation events the more effective it will be.

 

It is, simply, up to local people to ‘Lever up Leitrim.’

 

(For further details contact 071 9650496 or email lcdc@leitrimcoco.ie . Submissions or observations on the development of the Local, Economic and Community Plan can also be emailed to lcdc@leitrimcoco.ie on or before April 17th 2014.