Kildare meat firm launches challenge to minister's land-rezoning decision

A meat company has brought a High Court challenge over a ministerial decision directing county councillors to reverse a rezoning in a local plan which would affect the location of more than 300 new houses.

McCarthy Meats, of Clane, Co Kildare, claims the Minister for Housing Planning and Local Government was wrong in law to direct Kildare County Councillors to reverse their March 2016 decision to rezone 30 acres the company owns at Bodenstown, Sallins, for housing.