New gateway signs welcoming people into Omagh and Enniskillen are to cost £228,000 to install, it can be revealed.
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council confirmed the total cost of the project to Belfast Live, and with the eleven welcome signs to be part funded by the Department for Communities.
The local council says it hopes to complete the installation of the signs by the end of October.
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In Enniskillen, the trilingual signage will appear on the Dublin Road, Sligo Road, Irvinestown Road, and Lough Shore Road, with a feature inner gateway to be installed at East Bridge Street.
In Omagh the gateway signage will be installed at Doogary Road, Beltany Road, Gortin Road, Hospital Road, Dromore Road, and Killyclogher Road.
The council says the new installations are to ‘improve the sense of arrival on the approach into each town’.
In a social media post the council added: “The new trilingual signage is manufactured using Corten and stainless steel materials to provide a natural rustic appearance, the designs also incorporate the new Place brand for each town.”
Independent councillor Emmet McAleer criticised the cost of the signage and added the designs to be used by the council are 'less than impressive'.
"People are currently living in a crisis here and we see public money like this which could be spent on education or infrastructure," Cllr McAleer told Belfast Live.
"As well as the cost to people the actual design that was brought through was less than impressive. From what we have seen the signs look weather worn and rusty and I think there are better things that money could have been spent on.
"While there is a positive side to it in terms of the trilingual aspect of the signage, that's small consolation when we look at the bigger picture."
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