Abbeville development plans get green light

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.

Manor Park Homes succeeded yesterday in retaining planning permission for practically all of their extensive hotel, golf course, leisure and residential development on the 230-acre Abbeville Estate in Kinsealy, north County Dublin, formerly owned by the late Taoiseach.

That was despite an appeal to An Bord Pleanála. The view of the Bord’s inspector was that there were too many houses included and that the plan should be refused in its entirety because it represented a road safety hazard.