Public invited to express their views on ‘Vision Rathvilly 2040’

You can have your say on the Public Realm Plan for Rathvilly which will provide a planning vision for the town up to 2040.

Carlow County Council invite members of the public to participate in an emerging Public Realm Plan for the village of Rathvilly funded under the ‘Our Rural Future’ Rural Regeneration & Development Fund.

The purpose of the Plan is to guide the creation of a people and place oriented enhancement of Rathvilly as a great place to live, work and visit. 

The Vision Rathvilly 2040 team would like to hear views on how the village could become a thriving destination for locals, visitors, for families and for businesses.  Vision Rathvilly 2040 is a collaborative development process which aims to create a vision for the development of Rathvilly as a significant hub which services the visiting and living population of Rathvilly and its significant rural catchment in County Carlow and its surrounding Counties.

People can get involved by: 

Submit a comment online on Carlow County Council's Online Consultation Portal at https://consult.carlow.ie/en 

Reviewing the Plans & Meeting the Team on the Consultation Bus which will be in the Village Centre on 12th & 13th December 2022. Plan Viewing: 12th December 2022 10am-6pm.  Drop In Consultation Meetings with VHA Architects: 13th December 2022 3pm-8pm 

Arranging an appointment with the project team by e-mailing enterprise@carlowcoco.ie or by calling Nela Dowling in the Local Enterprise Office on 059-9129783 

Explaining the consultation process, Kieran Comerford, Head of Economic Development & Enterprise with Carlow County Council said: “The project team has prepared two options to give people a feel for a potential future project for the development of Rathvilly. We want to hear is peoples’ views on the two options, what they like, what they don’t like and other elements they would like to see. From that we will draft a final version for consideration for the ultimate plan.” Explaining the process at this stage he said “these are designed to encourage and elevate discussion and get opinions from people who live, work, play, visit and experience Rathvilly”. 

Vision Rathvilly 2040 is funded under Our Rural Future, the Rural Regeneration & Development Fund. VHA Architects are the appointed contractors for the public realm plan and Aisling Leahy from VHA said: “We are delighted to be working with Carlow County Council and look forward to our engagement with the local community and key stakeholders in the development of this plan”.

Aisling continued to say that in VHA their focus was “to design sustainable places for people, that enrich daily lives and enable communities where work, learning, living, growing and life happens”.