Page 6 - Thomastown in Focus - Regeneration Projects Newsletter

THOMASTOWN

HEALTH CHECK

In addition to the Development Plan in 2020 Kilkenny

County Council engaged Turley’s to undertake a ‘Health
Check’ of Thomastown using a combination of desk based

research and analysis, field work/site visits and commu-

nity/stakeholder engagement. Following this,the Health

Check concluded with a SWOT analysis informed by the

following items:

1. Socio-economic research and analysis
2. Planning policy review

3. Urban (physical) analysis; and

4. Stakeholder engagement (in the form of an on-line sur-

vey)

The Health Check identified the key planning issues and

development parameters associated with Thomastown in-
cluding: its physical environment; population / community

profile; access to services; and community life. The Health

Checks also identifies existing assets, amenities, accessi-

bility issues, environmental quality and service provision

etc. A planning appraisal provides a legislative and policy

context for the preparation of the Town Plans. Thomas-

town is small in relative terms and this limits the extent of
published data (including for example commercial informa-

tion). Therefore stakeholder engagement was carried out