High court rejects challenge to ministerial zoning order

The judge said the evidence did not support the convention that the minister relied on erroneous information in making his decision. File Picture.

The high court has rejected a challenge to a direction from the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government reversing a councillors’ rezoning decision in a local plan in Kildare.

McCarthy Meats, of Clane, Co Kildare, had sought the quashing of the minister's August 18, 2016, direction that Kildare County Council reverse a councillors’ March 2016 decision to rezone 30 acres the company owns at Bodenstown, Sallins, for housing.