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148 • Finance: Municipalities are broadly financially self-supporting. This means two things - (1) They have the capacity to support local planning through acquiring land, framing local plans and supervising development. (2) Their strength and autonomy at the local level sometimes means that it can be time consuming to effect major initiatives at a central level. The National Spatial Strategy | People, Places and Potential
Appendix V: Selection Rationale for Identified Towns 1: Gateways Sligo Sligo was selected as a gateway because of its strategic location in the North West, its physical and infrastructural capacity to develop substantially in the future and its stock of the critical factors such as water services, education and healthcare, necessary to support Gateway functions. Sligo’s spatial position means it is capable of energising a wider area encompassing parts of Mayo, Leitrim, Donegal and Sligo county itself as well as capitalising on emerging crossborder co-operation, while being part of a broader corridor of cities spanning from Cork to Derry. Letterkenny-Derry Derry is the fourth largest city on the island. Given its size, location and functions, Derry has been identified as a major regional city for the North-west including Donegal in "Shaping our Future" the Regional Development Strategy for Northern Ireland. Derry’s role has been reciprocated in the NSS in that Letterkenny has been identified as having a spatial and developmental function that could be co-ordinated with that of Derry to enhance critical mass and energise the wider Donegal and North-western areas. Letterkenny is a significant centre in its own right, as the focal point of transport networks in Donegal, having substantial capacity for development, good education (with Letterkenny Institute of Technology) and healthcare facilities as well as good connections to Derry, itself an important transport hub. Dundalk Dundalk is one of the largest towns in Ireland and occupies a strategic position between Dublin and Belfast, proximate to the border with Northern Ireland. Dundalk is on nationally strategic road and rail links and is well positioned spatially to energise eastern parts of the Border area. Dundalk has substantial capacity for development in land and services terms and contains important facilities such as the Institute of Technology. Taking account of these strengths and the issue of ensuring development within the Dublin-Belfast corridor as well as at either end, Dundalk is a logical choice as a gateway. Athlone/Mullingar/Tullamore Critical mass is central to delivering balanced regional development. In the Midlands, no individual centre would be likely to develop to the required scale and critical mass on its own in population or infrastructure terms. Echoing recent experience at EU level, co-operative networks between urban centres reasonably close to one another pointed towards similar opportunities in the Midlands. Athlone, Mullingar and Tullamore are reasonably proximate to one another, strategically located on east-west road rail energy and communications links, contain complementary infrastructure and individually and collectively, have substantial capacity for development in services terms. For example, Athlone contains the Institute of Technology, a range of employers and important retail functions. Mullingar and Tullamore have important healthcare and retail functions. Improved accessibility to these facilities would enable them to be shared better and would allow the region to be seen as having the type of infrastructure and critical mass comparable to a larger urban centre. The National Spatial Strategy | People, Places and Potential 149
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National Spatial Strategy for Irela
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MESSAGE FROM THE TAOISEACH Ireland
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Ireland’s Changing Spatial Struct
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Figure 2.1 Ireland - International
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Figure 2.2 Cities and Towns on the
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(2) Towns with populations in exces
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Housing output reached a new record
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The availability of a critical mass
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Ireland - Future Spatial Structure
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This will lead to • a strong and
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Ensure the effective use of the exi
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Map 3 National Transport Framework
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Not Feasible Feasible The National
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