Wonderful result!



Soon to be "Lovely old Town"



I received some great news this week! Always welcome. Charleville is a a busy little town in North Cork which is always full of jolly hustle and bustle and cars and lorry's and all sorts passing through on the way to Dublin or Galway as Charleville is very much the gateway to a lot of towns and cities further north. I'm not complaining too much as we need all of the business we can to pass through and stop to keep people in work and the town alive. However it has built up with the Celtic Tiger so much that people have forgotten the importance of green grass, trees and wildlife. At present there is not enough of it in Charleville by a long shot. Here is what some locals are doing about it...

There is a great Tidy Towns committee who do a wonderful job and have involved Diarmuid Gavin to promote and improve it via the Dirty old Town series and RTE. Still, not leaving it all to the minority we (a few more locals from nearby) decided to get together to see if there was something we could do to help. We tried to think of ideas to get wildlife back into the town and to get a nice relaxing area to walk around and enjoy being out and about among a greener area of the town. So one day Ted Bradley, a local environmentalist called us together and we put our ideas down of paper.

Hello!

Once we had decided exactly what we would do we sent of

an application for Agenda 21 to try to get a grant to complete it. I don't want to get all technical and bore the socks off you but just to say that it was fairly straight forward really. That was perhaps almost 9 months ago now and we hadn't heard anything. This week Ted told me the good news that it had all gone through. We hope to have a green area with trees and bird/bat boxes and anything else we can sneak in I'm sure, although I must confess I forget some of the notes we added but it's all there somewhere. How lovely to be able to enjoy a little bit of the country in the town. Lovely for the locals and lovely for the tourists to enjoy if we can only encourage them back and not charge a million dollars to come! More importantly, lovely for the wildlife to be invited back to what was rightfully theirs in the first place.

I'll let you know how it all pans out.

If you are interested in a future project for your area  Click here to find out about details regarding Agenda 21.