Decision to allow new house within 400 metres of main runway at Cork Airport reversed

Proposed development would establish 'undesirable precedent' for similar developments

Cork Airport terminal. An Bord Pleanála has overturned a planning decision to allow a house to be built 400m from the end of the runway. Picture: Larry Cummins

An Bord Pleanála has reversed a decision of Cork County Council to grant planning permission for a new house less than 400 metres from the end of the main runway at Cork Airport.

The airport’s operator, DAA, had appealed the council’s ruling to approve the construction of a new single-storey house with a converted attic close to the airport’s perimeter at Rathdermot, Lios Cross, Ballygarvan, Co Cork.