Councillors ‘unhappy’ at rural planning refusals

FIANNA FÁIL councillors in Kerry yesterday said they had a ‘very constructive’ meeting with new county manager Martin Riordan on controversial planning issues, but stressed they were still not happy with the way people were being treated.

In the course of the two-hour meeting in Tralee, FF councillors listed examples of cases where, they claimed, people should not have been reasonably refused planning.

And they also warned they would again start moving Section 140 motions, which direct the manager to give planning against his better judgement, if the situation does not change.