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Councillors have criticised Minister for Planning Jan O’Sullivan for attempting to “micromanage” the Mullingar Local Area Plan, as they voted to go ahead with changing the zoning of a site in Clonmore, Mullingar from enterprise and employment to retail warehousing.

The response to the Music Generation project in Westmeath has been described by its coordinator as “staggering”.

Westmeath’s councillors see housing as the biggest challenge for 2014, with one councillor predicting a housing shortage as “an explosion that’s about to happen”.

Mullingar councillors are to write to the HSE to ask them to allocate a designated smoking area on the grounds of Mullingar hospital, following the introduction of a a campus-wide ban on November 1.

Next year will be the year of bringing the arts to schools — that is the intention of Westmeath’s county arts officer Miriam Mulrennan who gave an update on progress in the county’s arts office for this year.

The chairman of Westmeath’s Housing SPC says his greatest fear for 2014 is that people on the housing list won’t be able to access accommodation on the Rental Accommodation Scheme.

A local councillor has criticised the Government’s policy of continued recentralisation and called it an “absolute joke”.

July has heralded a new era for the further education and training sector in Westmeath.

One of the longest continuously-trading businesses in Mullingar - Egan’s fishmongers on Dominick Street - may only have to wait until March to have their position regularised, it has been revealed this week.