Calls made for more disabled and age friendly parking in area of Tipperary
A councillor in Tipperary has called for more disabled and age friendly parking to be added to a street in Cashel
Calls have been made for more disabled and age friendly parking to be introduced in Cashel, Tipperary.
Independent councillor Liam Browne tabled the motion at this month’s Tipperary/Cahir/Cashel MD meeting, due to “a lack of age friendly spaces for parking in the town of Cashel.”
“We need to send the message out that we're going to become more disabled and age friendly in our town centres,” Cllr Browne told the meeting on Monday June 22.
The motion asked for the council to consider allocating a dedicated disabled parking space, and a disabled/age-friendly parking space on Friar Street in Cashel, in order to improve accessibility and ensure adequate parking provision for people with disabilities, older residents, and those with mobility challenges.
The Council responded that they will conduct a review of the Friar Street area considering existing provision of these spaces and proposed improvement access works that could take place to the Friar Street carpark.
The council will also assess any engineering requirement and distances necessary to safely provide disabled access parking in the area, following which they will come back to the members of the council with their findings.