Slip road plans to ease west Mayo town traffic progressing

PLANNING for the new Golf Course Road slip road in Westport is progressing.

Most of the design work on the project is done, optimising lands which will form part of the latest phase of the industrial park on the Newport Road.

The next stage will be to publish a Part 8 planning application, local councillors have been told. But first an archaeology report has to be completed.

There is an old burial ground on part of the site and that has to be investigated.

When the Part 8 is published there will be a period of public consultation.