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RACKS – TRACKS by Aidan Campbell               I don’t drive these days, due to ill-health, which means I walk a lot on my sojourns around the RACKS area. As [...]

Download the collision history knock road / shandon park / sandown road junction                                 [...]

Update from the Department of Infrastructure DFI Roads (Eastern Division) on the Cherryvalley footpaths and road repairs and resurfacing plans.

In researching old newspaper archives I was struck by the modern resonance with how busy and dangerous the roads were years ago. Several local newspaper reports recorded road traffic accidents in [...]

Cherryvalley Park Mandatory Credit : Stephen Hamilton   April 21 2021 04:39 PM     A series of street signs have been listed in a bid to protect Northern Ireland’s civic heritage. [...]

The road is of course the A55 Knock Road which passes through the RACKS area. Back in 2007 a news article caught my eye: ‘Residents are concerned at the volume and speed of traffic using the [...]

In the RACKS (Residents Association of Cherryvalley, Kensington and Shandon) area of Knock Townland there are several of the older street name signs in the black-tiled format as well as some in [...]

Download the RACKS Strategy 2021-2024

The look of housing in the RACKS area continues to change as older houses are replaced by modern, easier-to-heat, environmentally friendlier buildings. The first evidence of housing in the [...]

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