Tipperary Council secures grant to devise masterplan for Carrick-on-Suir's Goldcrop site

Tipperary County Council has secured just over €185,000 funding to design a riverside regeneration project for Carrick-on-Suir town centre that will include the devising of a masterplan for the redevelopment of the former Goldcrop site on the North Quay.

The €185,027 grant forms part of €766,714 in investment grants the Council has been allocated under Fáilte Ireland’s EU Just Transition Regenerative Tourism and Placemaking Scheme.

The funding was announced at Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District’s July meeting in Carrick-on-Suir Town Hall last Thursday.

Acting District Administrator Helen Cahill informed councillors in her report to the meeting that the Just Transition funding was in place for the Carrick-on-Suir Riverside Regeneration project.

It will fund the “feasibility, concept development and detailed design and planning” of the project to link Carrick-on-Suir town centre with its riverside.

She said this will include the preparation of a masterplan for the redevelopment of the former Goldcrop site.

It’s envisaged this masterplan will set out a development blueprint for tourism, cultural, recreational, commercial and retail use.

The Council purchased the extensive 2.7 acres derelict site along Carrick's North Quay next to Dillon Bridge from the Cork based Goldcrop company in 2022 for around €500,000 under the Derelict Sites Act by agreement with the company.

The Council secured €400,000 funding towards the site’s purchase from the Government’s Town & Village Renewal Scheme’s Buildings Acquisitions Measure, which is targeted at the purchase and redevelopment of vacant and derelict sites.

Last year the County Council secured planning permission for the site’s remediation and clean up. This included permission to remove eight derelict buildings on the site, the removal of boundary walls facing onto the Quay and removal of a weighbridge.