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Galway City Council runs an annual Spaces for Biodiversity Competition. The competition, which has been running since 1961 as the Galway City Garden competition, has been revamped in 2024.

The area is also part of an important and sensitive coastal environment. Climate resilience is increasingly important today and into the future.

Taking in charge is a formal legal process by which responsibility for certain public areas, structures and services in a private residential development or estate are transferred to, or put in the charge of, a local authority.

You must apply to the local authority for a permit to use temporary signage to advertise events.

Salthill is situated on the edge of the stunning Galway Bay and Atlantic Ocean on the centre point of the Wild Atlantic Way. Salthill seafront offers a unique landscape setting with a stunning promenade, amenity and biodiversity spaces and blue flag beaches which are hugely popular with local residents and visitors.

The Tidy Towns competition is a national competition organised by the Department of Rural and Community Development.

All public parks and open spaces within housing estate, that have been taken in charge by Galway City Council, are maintained by the Recreation & Amenity section of Galway City Council.

Any development which requires planning permission and does not have that permission, or which is going ahead in breach of the specific conditions set out in its planning permission, is classed as 'unauthorised development'.

Urban Development SPC

Under the Urban Regeneration & Housing Act 2015 all planning authorities are required to establish and maintain a Vacant Sites Register.