The Liffey Valley
Park Alliance
Welcome
to our Website
The Liffey Valley Park Alliance ( LVPA ), is a coalition of
organisations at both a national and local level with the objective of
achieving the designation of a park for the Liffey Valley in order to
protect the lands from inappropriate and unsympathetic
development and to promote awareness and recreational use of the
valley. In our website we aim to provide some further details about the
Valley and how you can enjoy it and also about ourselves and our vision
for a Liffey Valley Park. We also invite you to help us with
our
overall objective and to address in particular the terrible
threats currently facing the valley in Lucan and Celbridge in 2008.
* NEW * Liffey Valley Park Alliance Launches its series of walks and leaflets
We are delighted to present the first in our series of walks around and within the Liffey Valley. Our first walk takes you from Lucan Village, through Lucan Demesne and on to Leixlip Village but don't worry as we point out the bus routes that take you back to your start point. Alternatively, as the walk only takes about an hour, you can just walk back the way that you came.
Click here get more details on our walk and to download the leaflet.
The Liffey Valley is still under threat. (Again)
Donaghcumper Zone A Submission made
The proposal by Devondale (Durkan new homes) to build a new town
on the river liffey beside Celbridge, following their recent proposal
to build houses on the Liffey opposite Castletown Couse was
approved by Kildare County Council - despite this being completely out
of sclae for the Celbridge area, the traffic implications for the town
and the damage that it would do to the river and the Liffey Valley. We
beileve that this is a completely unviable development and is nothing
more than an exercise to increase the value of land that will probably
end up being owned by NAMA. The Liffey Valley Park Alliance has appealed the development to An Bord Pleanala and have requested that an Oral Hearing is held. If granted, we will play a full part in the hearing.
County Development Plan Success for Lucan
The
LVPA, together with the Lucan Planning Council, worked with the 5 Lucan
County Councillors to proposed sweeping changes to the zoning of land -
to protect the Liffey Valley. We congratulate and thank Cllrs Jones,
Keating, Lavelle, O'Connell, and Tuffy for their work and support
through the process. "It was fantastic to see all of the Lucan
Councillors working together to protect the Liffey Valley" said LVPA
PRO Joe Byrne.
Click here for details of the previous attempts to develop lands in the Liffey Valley.
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