Council Services
Limerick City Council is responsible for a number of local administrative services in the City. These include Motor Vehicle Tax, environmental maintenance and litter control, social housing, city planning, maintenance of roads, sanitation and upkeep of municipal sports, recreation facilities and for administrating the higher education grant for university students who reside within the Limerick City boundary. Limerick City Council, however, has no control of suburban areas of the overall Limerick City urban area. Limerick County Council is responsible for areas such as Castletroy and Dooradoyle while Clare County Council is responsible for areas such as Shannon Banks and Westbury. The situation of three local authorities controlling a relatively small city has drawn much criticism and efforts are being made to extend the city boundary and for one local authority to control the whole Limerick City urban area. Notable results from this situation include an incoherent growth strategy for the city and a gradual decline in the city centre as a large number of out of town shopping malls have been built in the suburbs with little focus on the city centre.
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