Carol Harpur

Community & Voluntary

Cobh Municipal District

Glounthaune Community Association

My name is Carol Harpur and I live in Glounthaune, Co Cork and am originally from Midleton. I am involved in many local groups and also as a volunteer coach with under 8s in my local GAA club. My nomination stems from my work with Glounthaune Community Association, in all aspects relating to planning our locality, from holding community consultations and preparing and submitting our response to planning issues from local up to national scale. This includes preparing submissions on the Draft County Development Plan and the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy as well as making submissions representing the community views on local projects. Cork County has a variety of issues to grapple with and as a representative it would be of great importance to me to recognise and represent those different challenges across the entire county. As well as completing the SECAD ’My Town, My Plan’ training, I am currently undertaking a course in planning in UCC, and am confident in my skills in assessing the impacts of proposed policy across our communities, and conveying that information back to the PPN member groups.