Go-ahead for Ring of Kerry road project despite inspector's warning

The council got permission to use of a compulsory purchase order to acquire 169 parcels of land and the extinguishment of public and private rights of way.

The Ring of Kerry near Sneem. An Bord Pleanála greenlit plans by Kerry County Council to improve a stretch between Sneem and Blackwater Bridge, against the recommendation of its own planning inspector who warned it represented “a suboptimum solution.” 

The state planning authority has approved plans for a road project on the Ring of Kerry despite its own planning inspector calling it "disjointed and haphazard".

An Bord Pleanála greenlit plans by Kerry County Council to improve a stretch between Sneem and Blackwater Bridge, against the recommendation of its own planning inspector who warned it represented “a suboptimum solution.”