Auctioneer calls for halt to ‘serial objectors’

NEW legislation is needed to combat the potentially damaging economic impact created by ‘serial objectors’, an auctioneer has said.

Groups or individuals should not be allowed to wage campaigns of sustained opposition to development, according to Waterford-based auctioneer, Des Purcell, of Purcell Properties.

He wants to see new legislation enacted which would limit the number and scope of objections which any individual can lodge.