Tuam estates join forces to secure taken in charge status

ANGRY residents in Tuam are gearing up to confront Galway County Council on the lengthy delays to having their housing estates taken in charge.
A meeting of the town’s community council last week saw representatives from seven different estates complain of a lack of action by the local authority on the issue.
The residents of Abbey Trinity have been waiting for 40 years for the council to take on responsibility for their estate, while those living in Elm Court off the Galway Road are facing into their 22nd year without taken-in-charge status.
The meeting at the Corralea Court Hotel heard frustrated residents complain they had followed the council’s procedure but several speakers claimed they were being fobbed off by officials at county buildings.
Community Council secretary Imelda Kelly proposed that if the residents combined forces they may effect greater change, as the issues each estate faced were broadly similar.