Chapter 4: Rural Living and Development
Actively supporting CLTs and related innovative housing practices will help Galway County Council achieve its stated Strategic Aims, as outlined in Section 4.2:
4.2 Strategic Aims
Galway County Council shall ensure that developments in rural areas are provided in accordance with the following strategic aims:
- To harness a pride of place among rural communities and to assist rural communities to promote their cultural and natural resources;
- To reinforce the vitality and future of rural villages and the open countryside and to recognise the roles that they play in the wider social and economic context;
- To encourage and support the social and economic development of rural parts of the County;
- To support local rural economies and facilitate the diversification of local rural enterprises;
- To maintain and support into the future the County’s rural/coastal communities including the traditional family farm;
- To help foster ‘green growth/management practices’ (including food security, quality and diversity) in primary food production methods within the agri-food, fisheries and forestry sectors within the County;
- To support and promote the sustainable social and economic development of rural area;
- To protect and enhance the visual qualities of rural areas through the sensitive design of associated development