An Bord Pleanála to quash hotel refusal due to 'legal deficiency in its reasoning'

The planning authority will now reconsider the application for the 142-bedroom development by the Neville hotel group's CoAnt Entertainment. File picture: Gareth Chaney

An Bord Pleanála has bowed to a challenge taken over its refusal for a landmark hotel in Wexford, saying it accepts there was a “legal deficiency” in its decision-making and that it will agree to quash the ruling.

It follows a High Court challenge by developers Colm and Anthony Neville, who based their case for a judicial review around an allegation that the board had mistakenly copied and pasted an earlier planning decision when overruling its own inspector to reject permission for the project.