Plans for new Dursey Island cable car may need fresh consideration following challenge

Environmental group had brought judicial review on basis the environment where the infrastructure was to be built was 'highly sensitive', with the Beara Peninsula special protection area for birds encompassing both the island and mainland side

Approval was granted last November to Cork County Council for the decommissioning of the existing cableway structure and the construction of a two-way cableway line with operating stations, mainland exhibition centre, a cafe and a car park. Picture: Dan Linehan

An Bord Pleanála may have to look afresh at the planning application for the development of a new cable car system connecting West Cork’s Beara Peninsula and Dursey Island.

The High Court on Monday heard An Bord Pleanála intends to concede in a challenge to its grant of planning permission for the development of a new cable car system between the Beara Peninsula and Dursey Island, the High Court has heard.