Simple typo could save development firm €500k

A PROPERTY development company could avoid paying almost half a million euro in development levies due to a simple typo in a planning document by Galway City Council.

It has emerged the council allowed €470,000 slip through its fingers because of a typographical error.

A hearing is due before the High Court over the case centred on a housing estate in Doughiska in Galway by Harmack Developments.