Appeals over seaplane base ‘exaggerated’

THE company behind contentious plans to construct a seaplane base at Mountshannon on Lough Derg have dismissed appeals against the plan as “exaggerated and misrepresentative”.

Earlier this year, Clare County Council granted planning permission to Harbour Flights Ireland for a seaplane base at Mountshannon that is part of a necklace of stops for the company along the west of Ireland.

However, An Taisce, the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board (now the Inland Fisheries Ireland or IFI), local anglers and residents appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála.