{"id":6110,"date":"2024-01-08T08:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:04:47","slug":"ibal-kilkenny-city-4th-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=6110","title":{"rendered":"IBAL \u2013 Kilkenny City 4th in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a\u00a0 year of\u00a0 extensive work\u00a0 to keep Kilkenny\u00a0 beautiful by all\u00a0 it is wonderful to be acknowledged by IBAL\u00a0 with a\u00a0 \u00a0fantastic result for Kilkenny City in\u00a0 2023. “Cleaner than European Norms” and 4th in Ireland.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> This is\u00a0 \u00a0 a reflection\u00a0 on the tremendous work undertaken by\u00a0 our volunteers, our community, our businesses\u00a0 and\u00a0 Kilkenny CoCo.\u00a0 Congratulations also to Maynooth\u00a0 who took the\u00a0 No. 1 position in 2023<\/p>\n

An Taisce Report \u2013 IBAL Anti-Litter League, Survey 2, 2023<\/em><\/strong>
\nKilkenny: 4th out of 40 towns \/ cities surveyed. Cleaner than European Norms.<\/em><\/strong>
\nAs always, a very strong performance by Kilkenny with eight out of the ten sites surveyed getting the top litter grade and no heavily littered sites. Top-ranking sites included Bottle Bank at St Canice\u2019s Car Park, St. Kieran\u2019s Street, The Mall, High Street and Kilkenny Castle Park \u2013 these sites weren\u2019t just good with regard to litter, but the overall presentation and maintenance of same was excellent. A fairy recent addition to Kilkenny is the lovely Riverside Garden and Skatepark site \u2013 it has been very attractively laid out but not nearly as clean as neighbouring sites.<\/em>
\nR712 Approach Dublin Road direction: Grade A.<\/strong> There were no obvious litter issues along this busy approach, creating a positive first impression of Kilkenny.<\/em>
\nR712 from Castlecomer Roundabout: Grade A. Road surface, markings and signage were all in very good condition along this tree lined route. Footpath \/ bicycle track were freshly presented. All was in good order with regards to litter.<\/em>
\nCanice\u2019s Car Park: Grade B.<\/strong> There was a virtual absence of litter on the main surface of the car park. It was the litter in the surrounding shrubbery which brought down the litter grade \u2013 as well as isolated items, there were a couple of bags of discarded rubbish. Care needs to be taken that this doesn\u2019t build up even further.<\/em>
\nBottle Bank, St. Canice\u2019s Car Park: Grade A.<\/strong> This small facility was excellent in terms of overall presentation, with an absence of litter. The individual recycle bin units and the signage associated with the use of same were in very good condition.<\/em>
\nHigh Street: Grade A. A pristine street. High Street is very attractively laid out with lovely paving, wooden seating, bicycle parking, bollards, extensive visitor information notices and some lovely colourful planter boxes. It\u2019s well served by litter bins and the street cleaner was very thorough as it was exceptionally clean.<\/em>
\nKilkenny Castle Park: Grade A.<\/strong> A wonderful resource and lovingly tended \u2013 it is such a tribute to the users of this vast expanse of green space that it was so so clean. All aspects within the park were in very good condition e.g., litter bins, visitor information signage, playground equipment, life-belt at the pond feature etc. As well as the typical visitor information signage, one of the notices related to \u2018Dignity in the Workplace\u2019.<\/em>
\nSt. Kieran\u2019s Street: Grade A.<\/strong> This narrow, pedestrianised shopping street was very much deserving of the top litter grade. Clearly a careful eye is kept on the closed down premises as there was no litter directly associated with them. A colourful mural takes away the bare look of one site and the \u2018\u2019Food for Life\u2019 premises has taken great care to enhance their shopfront with some lovely wall paintings.<\/em>
\nThe Mall: (the Parade) Grade A<\/strong>. Preparations was underway for the Christmas Market. The area was surveyed at a busy lunchtime with plenty of lunchtime outdoor dining. Despite the activity, it was a very clean site. The Mall is a very freshly presented environment with plenty of seating, \u2018olde\u2019 style street lamps, bicycle parking, visitor information signage and plenty of litter bins throughout.<\/em>
\nRiverside Garden and Skatepark: Grade B.<\/strong> This is a fairly new addition to Kilkenny (June 2021) and has been very attractively laid out, with great care taken at the older, historic waterfront buildings. The paving, seating, planted areas, \u2018olde\u2019 style street lamps etc. were lovely. There were plenty of combined litter bins \/ recycle bins throughout the long stretch of pathway leading to the Skatepark. Overall, the area was very mixed with regards to litter \u2013 some parts were spotless, others were far from spotless, resulting in an overall Grade B status. This could easily slide to a seriously littered site if allowed to build up any further.<\/em>
\nDunnes Stores Shopping Centre: Grade A.<\/strong> There was a virtual absence of litter at his busy shopping environment. Some of the pedestrian pathway paint was beginning to wear away.<\/em><\/p>\n

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After a\u00a0 year of\u00a0 extensive work\u00a0 to keep Kilkenny\u00a0 beautiful by all\u00a0 it is wonderful to be acknowledged by IBAL\u00a0 with a\u00a0 \u00a0fantastic result for Kilkenny City in\u00a0 2023. “Cleaner than European Norms” and 4th in Ireland.\u00a0 This is\u00a0 \u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6111,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions\/6111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}