Mallow to get new school to cater for growing population [corkman.ie]
- Published: 30 June 2011
MALLOW is to get a new national school under a government plan aimed at managing projected population increases over the coming years.
The Mallow school is one of six to be provided in Cork under the plan that will see a total of 40 new primary and post-primary schools built across the country over the next six years.
The need for a new national school in Mallow has long been flagged, with projections pointing to a sharp increase in the population of the town up to the year 2020.
Figures contained within the draft Mallow Electoral Area Local Area Plan released in November of last year, showed that the population of the town rose from 8,937 in 2002 to 10,241 in 2006, an increase of 15%.
The report went on to point out that the targets for population growth under the Cork Area Strategic Plan (CASP), indicated that this would almost double to 20,000 by the year 2020.
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