Residents face huge legal costs over plans to oppose terminal

HARBOUR residents are facing huge legal bills in a David versus Goliath planning battle with the port of Cork.

A leading community figure in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, revealed the huge financial burden facing residents who plan to fight the port’s plans to build a container terminal at Oysterbank.

Braham Brennan, the chairman of Ringaskiddy District Residents’ Association, said the association has been left with a €157,000 debt after its decision to oppose, at a Bord Pleanála hearing, plans for an incinerator in the harbour. That project was granted permission by the Bord despite advice from one of its own senior planning inspectors that it should be rejected.