ABP member signed off on 9 strategic housing developments in two months

An Bord Pleanála board member Michelle Fagan was involved in 11 final decisions — nine of which were approvals — on SHDs since Paul Hyde stepped back. 

A member of An Bord Pleanála who voted on more than 70 telecommunications mast applications, along with An Bord Pleanála's former deputy chair Paul Hyde, has signed off on nine large scale housing developments in the past two months.

Michelle Fagan, an architect on secondment to An Bord Pleanála since 2018, was involved in 11 final decisions — nine of which were approvals — regarding strategic housing developments (SHDs) since Paul Hyde stepped back from his duties on May 9.