ANTI-INCINERATOR lobby groups have welcomed a circular sent by Environment Minister John Gormley, to all local authorities and An Bord Pleanála outlining how department waste strategy is to be directed away from incineration towards sustainable waste management.

THE country’s largest local authority may sell off or lease a number of its assets, including a €40 million superdump, in an attempt to make ends meet during the next few years.

TRAFFIC engineers representing Cork harbour residents said there will be more traffic jams from Indaver’s proposed incinerator than the company’s environmental impact analysis has predicted.

THE Dublin Port Company is considering lodging a proposal with Government, before the end of this year, for it to make investments in port projects in Asia.

PLANNING chiefs opened a public hearing into the controversial Corrib gas pipeline route as a prominent protestor was jailed for the second time in less than two months.

CIÉ has failed to quash a compulsory purchase order (CPO) on some of its property in the Cork docklands after a High Court judge ruled the consent of the Minister for Transport was not a pre-condition before the CPO process is started.

A SOLE objector has succeeded in halting a massive €40 million commercial and retail development in Limerick city centre which would have given work to 600 people.

THE way has been cleared by An Bord Pleanála for more than 100 houses and apartments on a prime Douglas Road site in Cork city.

A RULE in Kerry that does not allow telecommunications masts within 1km of houses, schools and other residential buildings will delay the roll-out of broadband in rural areas of the county, county manager Tom Curran has warned.

WATERFORD County Council has commenced enforcement proceedings against a TK Maxx outlet in Waterford after An Bord Pleanála found it had contravened planning laws.

IN your report headlined ‘Department warns An Bord Pleanála of risks from harbour incinerators’ (February 25), you quote the developer Indaver as saying “the incinerators are ‘must-have’ for this country if we want to avoid hefty EU levies for sending too much waste to landfill.”

THE HSE has said there are no concerns over the financial stability of its controversial co-location plans, despite admitting discussions are continuing over whether banks have the resources to fund the projects.

AN Bord Pleanála is under fire for giving the green light for a private hospital next to Cork University Hospital (CUH) against the advice of one of its own inspectors.

THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has sent documentation to An Bord Pleanála informing the board they have no issue with the granting of planning permission for Indaver’s planned 240,000 tonne municipal and hazardous waste incinerator at Cork Harbour.

TWO major office and residential developments have been given the go-ahead by an Bord Pleanála in one of the country’s most exclusive neighbourhoods despite multiple objections from wealthy residents and environmentalists.

YOU get more than you’d bargain for with number 8 Beechwood: not only has it got an unexpected five bedrooms and 1,500 sq ft, it is also for sale for a fraction of what it cost its vendors.

INDAVER has been accused of trying to muscle-in on Cork County Council’s waste disposal business.

CORK County Council is to urge An Bord Pleanála to reject Indaver’s plans to build incinerators in Ringaskiddy capable of burning 300,000 tonnes per annum of municipal and hazardous waste.

RESIDENTS of an historic west Kerry village have vowed to continue their campaign against an Eircom mast after an Bord Pleanála overruled its own inspector to give the project the green light.

A €100 MILLION shopping centre which had the backing of several thousand people in the north Cork area has been refused.