Plans for Cork waste facility to be reconsidered as High Court quashes refusal decision

Country Clean is planning a 95,000-tonne-a-year waste facility at Little Island. Picture: Des Barry

Contentious plans for a 95,000-tonne-a-year waste transfer and recycling facility near Cork City must be considered again by An Bórd Pleanála after the High Court quashed its original decision to refuse planning at a time when Paul Hyde was its second in command.

It follows a legal challenge by Country Clean Recycling of the board’s refusal to allow it to build the facility in Little Island over an alleged failure by Hyde, the board’s then deputy chairperson, to recuse himself from having any role in the decision.