Playground for Carbury public meeting will take place next month

A community group aimed at rejuvenating the project to have a playground built in Carbury, has been formed in recent weeks with a public meeting scheduled for Wednesday, April 3.

The group is currently being led by Brendan Wyse, who also leads a group that is involved with a similar project in Allenwood. Mr. Wyse, who is secretary of his local Tidy Towns group and a Fine Gael local election candidate for the Clane area, is hosting a public meeting about the playground in Carbury GAA Hall.

"I’ve been working on the Allenwood Playground project for a number of years and it is now at the stage where Kildare County Council are currently seeking planning permission for it. I was asked by some members of the community in Carbury if I would be interested in lending a hand to get a similar project off the ground there. It is something that people had been looking at before and the time is right to get it moving again,"explains Mr. Wyse.

At the public meeting, a presentation will be shown outlining the potential locations for a playground along with an assessment of each site.

The community will then have their say on where the best place for a playground would be. The group will then liaise with Kildare County Council to get the project moving forward.

Mr. Wyse says that the community needs to work with the council on this, if it is to be delivered. “It is an objective of the current county development plan to build a playground in Derrinturn, but the council cannot do it on their own. They need a community group to work with them and help them identify possible sites. That is the process we are starting and we are holding the public meeting to get interested people together to help us move the project forward.”

The public meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 3rd in Carbury GAA Hall at 8pm and all are welcome.