CPOs: Ruling on South Kerry Greenway will have ‘far reaching’ consequences

Part of the route for the proposed South Kerry Greenway. Landowners took issue with their lands being used under Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO). File Picture.
A recent High Court ruling dismissed judicial reviews against South Kerry Greenway planned by Kerry County Council mainly on the route of the former Southern and Western railway line between Glenbeigh and Caherciveen.
One of the challenges from the landowners whose lands would be compulsory purchased by the Council were issues about the process surrounding the confirmation of compulsory purchase orders (CPO).