Local delight as fight against housing plan pays off

A PLANNING application for about 100 houses in Killorglin, Co Kerry, has been refused by An Bord Pleanála.

Local residents have successfully appealed against a decision of Kerry County Council last June, to grant planning to Glenloc Consulting Ltd for the development.

The proposal was to build 97 houses and apartments, with a creche, on a 4.7 hectare site about a half-kilometre from Killorglin, off the Iveragh Road.