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\u201cThis is a road where multiple planning permissions were granted, that people are using on a daily basis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s clearly a public road. What we need is for the road to be repaired and brought up to standard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe least we could do initially is to fill the potholes and give space to negotiate and take the road in charge if that is what is required.”<\/p>\n
Mayor Brogan said he had visited the road with council staff a few weeks ago and saw a school bus trying to offload children.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe council should, where they can, immediately repair what is there as a matter of urgency,\u201d Cllr Brogan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever is needed, the council needs to take action on this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councillors were told that the road is under private ownership, but that taking the road in charge can be considered under council policy.<\/p>\n
Under that policy, the council would normally require the landowner to dedicate the road in writing as a public right of way before the declaration process begins.<\/p>\n
The council said it will not declare a road public simply to remove the maintenance burden from individuals. The local authority may consider whether the road is widely used by the public and whether support can be provided for works or improvements, subject to funding being available in the annual budget.<\/p>\n
Cllr McMonagle said it would be incumbent on the council to look at taking the road in charge because of the amenities it services, but added that this would take time.<\/p>\n
He said the immediate concern was repairing the potholes to allow safe access to the services on the road, adding that upwards of 160 children a day are travelling in and out by bus.<\/p>\n
Mayor Brogan added, \u201cWe\u2019ll fill them ourselves if we have to. I cannot stress the importance of it. It\u2019s not that big a job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor of Letterkenny Ciaran Brogan has warned that councillors could fill deep potholes themselves unless urgent action is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-446067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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