Rezoning plans for city centre angers unions

The Waterford Council of Trade Unions has condemned the decision of Waterford City Council to rezone New Street in the city centre.

The motion to re-zone was passed eight votes to five at the June meeting of the city council with councillors on the left voting against.

The rezoning of New Street from residential to commercial use is intended to pave the way for the construction of what the council sees as the “grossly disproportionate and inappropriate” Brewery Shopping Centre, the construction of which would entail the demolition of an entire quarter of Waterford’s city centre.