FRIENDS OF LOUGH MUCKNO GROUP EXPRESS STRONG RESERVATIONS ABOUT COUNTY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR ‘BLAYNEY AMENITY

The Friends of Lough Muckno group has expressed strong reservations about the development strategy being pursued by Monaghan Co Council in relation to the Castleblayney amenity. The group has issued an open letter to the local authority outlining its concerns. The letter is in response to last week’s decision by the Co Council to commission a further feasibility study on development options for the Lough Muckno area and the Hope Castle and Annex buildings.

The group, which has put forward its own development “vision” for the amenity, has called on the Council to reverse its feasibility study decision and to abandon support for the “Vision for Lough Muckno” document which was the subject of a public consultation exercise in the area earlier this year. The following is the full text of the group’s open letter: Dear Councillors, This letter is addressed to you by the Friends of Lough Muckno, a group of people from Castleblayney and beyond that formed to defend the Lough Muckno estate in Castleblayney from what we consider to be the dangers posed to it by Monaghan Co Council’s ‘Vision for Lough Muckno’ plan.

We are using this open forum to alert you (and the people of Castleblayney) to the fact that, in our opinion, Monaghan County Council’s management of the entire process of the ‘Vision’ plan has fallen below the standards of behaviour that the people of Co Monaghan have a right to expect from its local…