Challenge to Cork apartment plan referred to European courts

Four questions were referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding a developer’s obligations under EU environmental law to survey for potentially affected species

The case involves the strategic housing development at Old Fort Road in Ballincollig.

Elements of the second leg of a challenge to the 2020 permission for 123 apartments in Co. Cork have been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

In a ruling on Friday, the High Court’s Mr Justice Richard Humphreys proposed to ask the European court to determine three complex legal questions regarding the level of information a developer must obtain about species that might be affected by a proposed development.