Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a wind farm in east Cork for the second time in two years.

More than 30 new sites in Cork City have been declared derelict as part of a concerted effort to tackle dereliction in the city.

Communities are hitting back at a surge in solar farm construction spreading across the country with no specific planning guidelines in place to regulate them.

A group of residents in Dublin 4 are opposing fresh plans by a property firm backed by businessman Denis O’Brien for a new €50m luxury apartment block development.

An Taisce has put the brakes on the owners of the four-star Radisson Blu hotel in Dublin city centre from proceeding with a major extension plan which includes 103 additional bedrooms.

An obstacle has been cleared for the amalgamation of the boys and girls national schools in Kanturk, Co Cork.

The self-styled ‘Ronaldo’ of the Irish property scene, Greg Kavanagh is not giving up in his battle for a contentious €15m development proceeding at Mount Merrion in south Dublin.

School buildings for almost 1,300 children from pre-school to Leaving Certificate are to begin construction next year in the Cork town of Carrigaline.

THE delays around finalising the location of the national children’s hospital in Dublin may have set the benchmark for prevarication, political featherbedding, professional disagreement, inexplicable decisions and just plain, unacceptable time wasting in public projects in Ireland. The delivery of that facility is a snail-paced saga of a different colour.

The residents of Temple Bar are a battle-hardened bunch of people. Some might well question their sanity for moving into the area in the first place.

The Department of Housing is to issue guidelines to all local authorities to give them clarity when dealing with Airbnb properties.

John Malone has applied for a seven-storey, 97-bedroom extension to the Hilton Hotel on Grand Canal.