MEATH’S county manager yesterday confirmed he is seeking a judicial review of a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a development of over 400 homes in Navan, as it included a requirement for 20% of the units to be made available for social and affordable housing.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Mansfield has started a fresh legal action to overturn a decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse him planning permission for a controversial conference centre at his Citywest hotel and golf complex in Dublin.

I REFER to An Taisce’s recent ‘unreserved’ apology to journalist Fintan O’Toole for describing his plan for his holiday home in Co Clare as ‘criminal’ and an ‘infection’ on the landscape.

THE green light has been given for an extra 50 local authority houses in Killarney, which will go some way towards reducing a waiting list of more than 400 housing applicants.

DUFFY MITCHELL O’DONOGHUE (DMOD), have secured a planning permission for the redevelopment of Stillorgan Shopping Centre in Dublin, on behalf of their client Treasury Holdings.

A MASSIVE temporary car park which will service people travelling to and from the Ryder Cup has been given planning permission despite objections from locals who fear it will lead to increased traffic volumes and who argue a more suitable site might have been found.

PARENTS of pupils at a Waterford primary school say they’re going to appeal a decision by the local council to grant retention for a mobile phone mast located within 180 metres from the junior infants’ classroom.

THE general manager of a windfarm project on the Cork/Kerry border yesterday said he was confident that problems with TV reception in the area had been rectified.

The iconic Panti Bliss sign has been given a new lease of life thanks to an appeal by the bar-owner Panti Bliss.

The High Court has been asked to review the decision to grant Apple permission to build an €850m data centre in Galway.

ESB and Coillte are pleased to announce that funding has been secured for the Castlepook Wind Farm project in Co Cork.

Bord na Mona workers who fear they may lose their jobs want an urgent meeting with the Environment Minister, Denis Naughten.

Latest: An expert witness for Indaver Ireland has said Ringaskiddy and not Bottlehill is the appropriate site for an incinerator, writes Catherine Shanahan of the Irish Examiner.

Latest: Archaeologist Avril Purcell said there were no recorded monuments listed in the Record of Monuments and Places within the proposed development site for an incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Apple has been granted planning permission for its major Hollyhill expansion proposal, clearing the way for the creation of 1,000 extra jobs, writes Gordon Deegan.

Ireland's first Center Parcs holiday resort has been given final approval by planners.

Center Parcs' plan to build a holiday village in Co. Longford has got approval from An Bord Pleanála.

There was a 9% increase in the number of planning applications An Bord Pleanála received last year.

Another autumn of discontent awaits college students as the scramble for scarcer and dearer accommodation is tougher than in any of the last 10 years writes Niall Murray.

Donal Óg Cusack has abandoned his current plans to build his dream home out on the outskirts of his homeplace in Cork writes Gordan Deegan.