Appeals board rules against €20m biodiesel plant

PLANS for a €20 million biodiesel plant in Cork were shot down by An Bórd Pleanála yesterday.

Earlier this year, Cork County Council gave farmer and developer Dennis Howard permission to build a 100,000-tonne biodiesel production plant on an 11-acre family-owned site on rolling farmland near Kildorrery in North Cork.

The project was given the green light despite advice from a senior council planner that the site, on what was once the demesne of Bowens’ Court Country House, was unsuitable.