Developer needs planning permission to land helicopter

AN BORD PLEANÁLA has ruled that a property developer needs planning permission to land a helicopter on land near his home.

Michael O’Flynn, the managing director of O’Flynn Construction, referred the matter to the board after Cork County Council said, in 2007, that the use of a piece of land at his home in Kilcrea, near Ovens, Co Cork, for helicopter landings was development and was not exempted development.

Exempted development does not require planning permission.