A PERIOD home set on 150 acres with 80 acres zoned for housing has been sold for €24 million.

THE ink is barely dry on fast-track planning proposals unveiled yesterday by Environment Minister Dick Roche and already serious questions are being raised about the ramifications of the coalition’s bid to accelerate major infrastructural projects.

THE Hill of Tara constitutes the heart and soul of Ireland. Our ceremonial and mythical capital, its very name invokes the spirit and mystique of our people, and is instantly recognisable worldwide.

A TOWN with 10,000 homes is to be built in west Dublin after approval was granted by An Bord Pleanála yesterday.

NO objections have yet been lodged following the recent publication of the planned route for a new road linking Waterford and Dublin.

CONSTRUCTION will begin next year on both the Waterford City bypass and the long-awaited Waterford to Dublin route, Transport Minister Martin Cullen has confirmed.

ALMOST one-third of planning permissions granted for one-off housing were overturned last year due to lack of proper infrastructure such as sewerage.

AN inspector with the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) said yesterday that he was unconcerned by a gas pipeline running through the site of a proposed hazardous waste incinerator plant at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

NATURE has blessed Sydney with the largest harbour in the world.

UP to 500 jobs will be created in Dungarvan after a €440m shopping complex has been given planning permission.

SHELL E&P IRELAND yesterday welcomed the decision of An Bord Pleanála to uphold Mayo County Council's decision to grant planning permission for the proposed gas terminal at Bellanaboy Bridge, which is to be built to bring Corrib Gas ashore.

LOCAL residents are welcoming the decision of Bord Pleanala to hold a full oral hearing into a controversial planning application for a 16.5-hectare quarry in Co Tipperary.

THE state will lose at least €200 million if the €1bn Corrib gas field project is abandoned following a controversial Bord Pleanála decision.

PROPOSALS to build a €14 million super dump which would have taken 1.5 million tonnes of waste have been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to back Cork County Council in insisting on the spirit, and the law, of the concept of social housing is to be welcomed as a major breakthrough.

ONE of the country’s largest development firms has been given the equivalent of a €1.7 million ‘cash back’ windfall thanks to An Bord Pleanála.

PLANNING corruption has created hundreds of thousands of victims, Green Party leader Trevor Sargent said yesterday, pointing an accusing finger at the Taoiseach for failing to sanction Fianna Fáil members involved.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche last night defended the decision by the Environment Protection Agency to grant licences to two incinerators in Cork and Meath.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to give the go-ahead for Indaver’s toxic waste incinerator on the shores of Cork harbour must spell the end of the Bord as a credible planning body.

I WAS flabbergasted at Environment Minister Dick Roche’s assertion that Indaver’s incinerators are passing through “one of the most open and rigorous physical planning and environmental licensing regimes in the world” (January 5).