This is the view that confronts pedestrians walking from Hyde Terrace in Mohill when they want to go into town.

The footpath has been closed off to allow from the development of a block of apartments, and has been closed for several months. There are no parking restrictions on either side of the street, and mothers with buggies have to cross the street to pass, if they can find a gap in the parked cars on the other side of the street. There are no traffic lights on this street and no pedestrian crossings.

This is what happens when your Local Authority and elected Councillors promote the view that towns are for parking cars and developing property and not places where people live and bring up children.

This development should not have been allowed go ahead until:

Local residents had been consulted about its potential impact

The Developer had provided a secure walkway past the site

The Developer had provided for temporary speed ramps on the road

The Local Authority had imposed (and enforced) parking restrictions on the other side of the road

Given the the footpath was obviously going to be closed for several months, is that really that much to ask?