Council need to get advice on car park - MacSharry
FIANNA Fáil councillor Tom MacSharry wants Sligo County Council to “reclaim” Connaughton Road car park which has been home to the McGinley family for over 30 years.
He told The Sligo Champion: “The issue should be given top priority by the Council, taking into consideration health and safety of the parties involved where the lighting of fires wasn’t safe or sustainable while also taking into account the interests of the business community and its customers where the car park was badly needed to accommodate them and the loss of vital revenue in car parking charges to the council was also a valid consideration.
“The fact is that the aesthetics of the current situation are absolutely not what Sligo as the jewel in the crown of the North West and the Wild Atlantic Way needs right now.
“Sligo unfortunately lost a lot of businesses in the recession and those that remain are still under pressure to make the best of things day-to-day and all of us involved in politics owe a duty to maximise Sligo’s tourism potential and business opportunities.”
He said the Council needed to seek guidance from central Government and get a legal opinion from Senior Counsel in relation to how best to proceed to legally to reclaim the public car park.
Cllr MacSharry made the remarks in light of speculation that the McGinley are preparing to establish a squatters’ rights case over the car park where six families live.