Agency fights €65m road

A challenge by An Taisce over planning approval for a controversial €65m road widening scheme on the N86 road between Tralee and Dingle has opened before the Commercial Court.

An Taisce wants orders quashing a November 2014 decision of An Bord Pleanála granting approval for the scheme, proposed by Kerry County Council, to improve the road from Dingle to Annascaul and from Gortbreagoge to Camp Road.

The board previously refused permission for the scheme but that decision was overturned by the High Court in 2013. The matter was then sent back to the board and it approved the scheme in November 2014.