Six councils set to face planning probes

The housing minister has ordered a fresh probe into the planning system in six local authorities.

Jan O’Sullivan has asked town planning experts MacCabe Durney Barnes Consultants to undertake an independent review of the performance of the planning functions in Cork, Carlow, Galway, and Meath county councils, as well as in Dublin and Cork city councils, and to report back to her by July.

It will be the third probe into Ireland’s planning system in four years.