The sometime scourge of plans by Trump Doonbeg and other developers has lost out on his own plans to extend the number of Airbnb style studio lettings at his protected Georgian Dublin property.

A local authority has agreed to quash planning approval for a bathing changing area at the home of a neighbour of film-maker Neil Jordan, the High Court has heard.

The Irish Film Board has broken its silence around the upcoming Star Wars shoot on Skellig Michael by saying it must adhere to confidentiality demands from producers.

Conservationists are pleading for emergency action to stop destruction of the country’s oldest known bog road.

Ireland’s heritage watchdog has raised concerns about further filming of Star Wars on Skellig Michael off the Kerry coast.

An Taisce has called on the Taoiseach to help stop the sale of paintings from the Alfred Beit Collection at auction in London.

The long-running national children’s hospital plan risks being delayed yet again, after it emerged the chosen site for the building is on the grounds of an ancient mass paupers’ grave.

The average fine meted out by the courts for breaches of environmental law such as polluting rivers, ignoring the terms of waste licences, and illegally dumping waste, is a mere €10,000.

The number and size of fines don’t do enough to deter, reports Claire O’Sullivan.

One of Ireland’s most expensive local authority’s has rejected claims it wasted more than €40m on botched planning projects since 2005 by failing to follow its own development plan.

PLANS for a unique tourism product on the eastern edge of the Burren that has the potential to generate €3 million per annum and create up to 18 jobs have been thrown into doubt.

HERITAGE body An Taisce has objected to plans to revamp one of Co Cork’s best-known hotels.

THE Government’s action in taking the side of landowners and vested interests in planning legislation could cost the country several million euro in fines, warned An Taisce.

AN TAISCE has objected to plans by Coillte to build a 90-bed nursing home in a forestry in east Cork.

THE Department of the Environment said it has no plans to investigate allegations that “serial objectors” who may have links to heritage group An Taisce took money to withdraw objections to planning permission.

CORK county manager Martin Riordan says he wants to see all allegations made against his planning staff and is confident he will be able to refute every one of them.

AS residents of the Ballyhoura district in north Cork, my wife and I may be adversely affected by the proposed €1 billion super-highway — the M20 — between Cork and Limerick.

A GROWING number of high-rise buildings are taking from the beauty of Killarney and blocking off views traditionally enjoyed by local people and visitors, it has been claimed.

In the second of a two-part series, planning issues and systems are examined By Caroline O'Doherty.

Rockers U2 have angered environmentalists in Ireland with plans to build an unsightly skyscraper in Dublin.

CHARLES HAUGHEY preferred equestrian sports to golf but even he would have been impressed with the hole in one scored by the developers of his former estate home.

RESIDENTS of a Co Louth village have appealed to An Bord Pleanála a decision to grant permission to a housing development, saying that a well discovered on the site two years ago could be linked to St Bridget.

SOME owners of old, protected buildings in Killarney are allowing them to go derelict so that they can be more easily removed from the list of protected structures, executive planner Fiona O’Sullivan told Killarney Town Council.

ENVIRONMENTAL watchdog group, An Taisce, said yesterday it is going to keep a close eye on planning applications made by or on behalf of religious orders in an attempt to ensure that such development is consistent with the ethos of such groups.

ENVIRONMENT agency An Taisce yesterday lodged an appeal over plans to build a toxic waste burner in Cork harbour.

Environment agency An Taisce today lodged an appeal over plans to build a toxic waste burner in Cork harbour.

Conservation groups are calling for the construction of a planned incinerator near the Newgrange site in Co Meath to be stopped.

ALMOST one-third of planning permissions granted for one-off housing were overturned last year due to lack of proper infrastructure such as sewerage.

AN TAISCE has sought to halt the demolition of a mid-19th century, fire-damaged chapel at a former convent in Cork city, claiming it is still protected.

IN REACTION terms, the words ‘An Taisce’ have the same effect on some rural TDs as the words ‘Mick McCarthy’ have on Roy Keane.

Champion golfer Nick Faldo was attacked by nature lovers today after he bought an island off the coast of Co Mayo.

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PLANS to build a €300 million windfarm in Co Mayo are in doubt as fears grow that planning permission for the development will be appealed to Bord Pleanala.

AN TAISCE has put the brakes on a high priority €12m water supply scheme in West Cork.

The Government has come under fire for failing to utilise international powers put it place to protect the world’s best-known heritage sites.

ONE in every four tonnes of hazardous waste is dumped in up to 300 illegal dumps nationwide, An Taisce said yesterday.

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THE Government will face legal action if it does not stop charging people who wish to comment on applications for planning permission, the European Commission has said.

THE Government was accused of hypocrisy as Environment Minister Martin Cullen indicated that everyone would have to bear the burden of carbon taxes if Ireland was to meet its obligations under the Kyoto protocol.

AN TAISCE has dismissed a number of its members in the west amid claims they were trying to infiltrate and destroy the conservation body.

PLANNING organisation An Taisce has been labelled “public enemy number one” by rural dwellers annoyed at its objections to housing plans.

The environmental organisation An Taisce has revealed that it is considering legal action to prevent the construction of a motorway through the site of Carrickmines Castle in south Dublin.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has proposed raising a section of the South Eastern Motorway to save the archeological discoveries at Carrickmines Castle.