U2 rocker The Edge yesterday lost his High Court bid to quash a decision of An Bord Pleanala refusing him planning permission for a major extension at his home at Sorrento Cottage, in Dalkey, Co Dublin.

PROTESTERS last night said they were prepared to take a European court case against proposals to build Ireland’s first toxic waste incinerator.

A MULTI-MILLION euro residential and business development on the outskirts of Nenagh, Co Tipperary, has been granted planning permission by Nenagh Town Council.

A SUPER DUMP proposal at a forestry site on the Cork-Limerick border was rejected yesterday for a second time by Bord Pleanála.

MILLIONAIRE businessman and leading Fianna Fáil supporter Jim Mansfield looks set for another major confrontation with the planning authorities over his plans to build a €50 million conference centre as part of his Citywest complex in south-west Dublin.

THE first phase of the €3 million ‘Banks of the Lee’ walkway, first suggested almost 20 years ago, was finally opened to the public yesterday.

FORMER Junior Minister Ivor Callely could be forced to scrap guest accommodation he built at his holiday home if he loses an appeal to An Bord Pleanála.

THE owners of one of the most important period houses in Cork are to cut their losses after a bitter planning saga.

TRAFFIC congestion in and around Waterford city will not be eased for another three years at least as An Bord Pleanála considers various design aspects of the long-awaited bypass.

THE Environmental Protection Agency last night granted a local authority a licence to operate what is likely to be the biggest super dump in the country.

MEMBERS of Kerry County Council are considering suing the chief executive of An Taisce after he accused them of putting the interests of an individual landowner before the public interest.

THE country’s first toxic waste incinerator has moved a step closer to reality after planners said they had no objection to the €80m development.

WILL an out-of town developer move far enough south to take on the redevelopment of the Dunkathel estate - and to outbid the handful of locals keen to get their hands on a site for a c300 house scheme plus luxury hotel?

MOVES are being stepped up to lift a controversial ban on the erection of mobile phone masts within a kilometre of residential buildings in Kerry.

UNLESS planning restrictions on masts are eased, people in parts of Kerry will not get mobile phone coverage, a leading phone company warned yesterday.

OPPONENTS to one of Waterford city’s regeneration projects fear that valuable artefacts may be destroyed by developers’ digging.

SENIOR design staff involved in the development of the long-awaited Waterford to Kilcullen dual carriageway say they hope to begin the first phase of the 64km route by this time next year.

THREE-storey terraced and semi-detached houses in a courtyard site in Kinsale have just been released on the market this week and should create a bit of a stir in the gourmet town.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday opposed the construction of an incinerator in his own constituency — in direct conflict with stated Government policy to build the facilities where they are needed.

MORE than four years of “living hell” are to come to an end for two Waterford brothers following a Bord Pleanála ruling this week that the ESB must remove two steel pylons, which were erected by the company without planning permission.