Galway Bay fm newsroom:
Plans to build a new post-primary school building for Clarin College have taken a major step forward.
Galway County Council has granted planning permission to the Minister for Education for a 2-storey school building in the townland of Newford.
It will include a 2-classroom Special Needs Unit, sports ahll, classroom, general purpose hall and student and teacher facilities.
Outside the building there will be 92 car parking spaces, ballcourts and a new pedestrian/cycle path along the R348.
Planning permission has been granted subject to 11 conditions including a requirement that exact location of the pedestrian footbridge must be submitted to the council for agreement.
Local area councillor Peter Feeney says it's hoped work will progress shortly.
