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When the Fermoy By Pass opened, a number of business, community and political leaders of the Greater Fermoy Area began to meet quietly - to see how we could pro-actively seize the great opportunity presented by the new By-Pass.
It is clear that the journey ahead is bigger than any one individual or group or organisation. To do the best for the people of the Area and for future generations, all of the local agencies and organisations and all of the members of these communities will need to work together closely. Towns and their Areas pay a very high price for disharmony or for groups ‘ploughing a lone furrow’.
So, two representatives of each community / sport / voluntary group were invited to attend a First Conference of the Fermoy Post By Pass Forum on 01 sep 2008. The aim of the Forum Conferences is to facilitate this co-operation, especially across organisational boundaries - new meetings or new structures are obviously needed.
Members of the Forum have agreed that co-operation between groups and agencies needed as a first step [1] an up-to-date professionally-compiled baseline data report re demographic / socio-economic / community scenario (present and future) and then [2] a plan or strategy and shared short-term and longer-term targets. All agreed that such a Report would give everybody a good starting point to begin the journey to achieve greater co-operative action between the many groups and government agencies. It was for this reason Goodbody Economic Consultants were commissioned to undertake such a study.
Such a profile of the shopping / service hinterland of Fermoy will form a critical element of any retail or other business plan . . . good business judgement usually follows good business research. Over the next few months, it is our intention to further develope this profile of the Fermoy Area.
It is the ambition of the NCEB also that these profiles will help in promoting networking between Business Owners within the Area and, also, that they will help in promoting the Area as a great location in which to set up new businesses ...
To view a Memo on NCEB activities in your area see this document. Click here >>
