Superdump plan refused twice gets oral hearing

A CONTROVERSIAL €20 million superdump on the Cork/Limerick border is earmarked for a Bord Pleanála oral hearing.

The planning appeals board has advised the country’s largest private waste operator, Greenstar, that an oral hearing is scheduled between November and next January.

The company — which had a €200m turnover last year — wants to create the landfill at Ballyguyroe, near Kildorrery, to service its entire Munster operation. Its plans were twice turned down by Cork County Council and Bord Pleanála, although the company was granted a licence to operate the Ballyguyroe landfill by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).