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The Land Development Agency (LDA) has lodged a planning application for 356 new cost rental and social homes in the inner harbour at Galway Port.

Galway Harbour Company (GHC) and The Land Development Agency (LDA) last evening (Wednesday) announced the launch of a joint consultation and stakeholder engagement process for the planned redevelopment of Galway Inner Harbour, which includes the proposed delivery of 350 affordable and social homes at Amharc Atalia, a planned new LDA housing development.

Planners in Galway City Council have approved the government agency’s application to have 356 proposed apartments between Lough Atalia Road, Dock Road, and within Galway Port considered as a Large-scale Residential Development (LRD).

A delegation led by Galway City Council has returned from a successful three-day visit to Lorient, France marking the 50thanniversary of the Galway-Lorient Twinning. The milestone visit which took place from 20-23 March 2025 reinforced the strong cultural, economic, and maritime ties between the two cities, highlighting their shared commitment to sustainability, education, and innovation.

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien TD visited Galway Harbour on Monday to formally announce the transfer of a three-acre site, with the potential for over 250 homes, to the Land Development Agency (LDA).

The Galway Harbour could close as a commercial port if planning permission is not granted for a proposed redevelopment.

It is perhaps surprising that a city such as Galway which was built on the water and is mostly surrounded by it, should have taken this long to realise that perhaps for centuries, we have been looking the wrong way. There are not many cities that have the proximity of its port so close to the city centre and yet have it so underutilised. Perhaps now, comes the vision that will change that.

An ambitious and wide-ranging vision for a major regional development of Galway Harbour, which aims to transform the economic, social and cultural fabric of Galway City and the West of Ireland was launched yesterday (Wednesday), kick starting an intensive six-week period of consultation with stakeholders and citizens.

So here it is, the news that Galway city and county are lodged “within a province that from a spatial planning point of view, is full of low density housing, is totally reliant on private transport (the car) and which is in need of transforming to using rail and public transport” to become a “high density city and to support cycling and walking?”

Minister of State in the Department of Transport with responsibility for International and Road Transport and Logistics