Council refuses Daa's 'invalid' planning bid to raise passenger capacity

In the order from the council's chief executive, it highlights how proposals to increase the capacity in the airport from 32 million passengers per year to 36 million defines how both figures would be counted using 'entirely different' methodologies. File photo: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

A planning application to raise the passenger capacity at Dublin Airport to 36 million passengers has been declared invalid by Fingal County Council.

In a statement on Tuesday evening, the council said the high-profile planning bid was invalid because it failed to comply with sections of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001.