33% of bodies’ planning appeals upheld

THE six local authorities being examined as part of Environment Minister John Gormley’s planning review accounted for one in every three successful planning decision appeals in 2008.

The most recent figures available show of the 62,056 decisions made nationally by An Bord Pleanála that year, 5,056 were appealed.

Some 1,648 of the initial decisions were overturned, with 508 (31%), of those directly related to the six local authorities now under examination. These included: