Well-known Cork businessman faces demolishing workshop after row over noise levels

Bord Pleanála upholds appeal by local residents against decision of Cork County Council to grant retention permission to Noel C Duggan Structural Steel Limited for an extension to a workshop at its factory in Millstreet

Noel C Duggan: Company had sought retention permission for the extension after the local authority took enforcement action against it for allegedly building a shed and polluting the site with noise and odours. File picture: Dan Linehan

A steel manufacturing company owned by well-known Cork businessman Noel C Duggan faces having to demolish part of a workshop after losing a planning row about noise from its plant in Millstreet.

An Bord Pleanála has upheld an appeal by the Church Street Residents’ Association against the decision of Cork County Council to grant retention permission to Noel C Duggan Structural Steel Limited for an extension to a workshop at its factory near the centre of the north Cork town.