Residents to cough up £60k for scheme

July 1984

Residents of Bray Seafront have been asked to make a substantial contribution towards funds for a Coastal Protection Scheme in the area.

And the request has been backed up by a recommendation from the executive committee of the two residents’ associations on the esplanade.

Members of Bray Urban Council were informed of this development at Tuesday’s meeting, where Councillor Michael Ledwidge reported the executives had agreed to make the recommendations at a recent meeting. Members of the Bray Seafront Residents Association and the Bray Northern Esplanade and Area Residents Association are being asked to contribute towards the scheme, which will cost £3 million.

After a campaign of lobbying which went on for more than a year, the Board of Works recommended the scheme, which is considered essential to prevent the collapse of the seafront.

The Department of Finance is to make the bulk of the money available, while both Wicklow County Council and Bray Urban Council will also make contributions.

It is understood that it is hope to raise about £60,000 among the residents, which amounts to 5 per cent of the total amount.

This would mean that on average, each household would be levied for several hundred pounds.

It is felt that the larger the contribution made by residents, the more seriously the scheme will be taken at Government level.

The recent meeting on which Councillor Ledwidge followed the sending of individual letters to all the residents on the seafront from Bray Urban Council requesting help.