CONTROVERSIAL plans for a 100-bedroom hotel and 66 houses in Co Cork have been turned down, but Marymount Hospice has received permission to build a 129-bed hospital.

A PERIOD home in Clonakilty, Co Cork, has character and aspect - and a half-acre site with development potential that underpins its e1m asking price with local agent Ray O’Neill, of the Sherry Fitzgerald franchise.

IN a letter (Irish Examiner, December 29), I challenged An Bord Pleanála, the EPA and Indaver Ireland Ltd to deny that the proposed Ringaskiddy incinerators will discharge toxic ash and poisonous emissions to the atmosphere.

WHY aren’t the people of Cork out in their thousands protesting against the draft licence which the EPA has granted Indaver for two incinerators in Cork harbour.

BY all means put hundreds of wind farms offshore where they are at least efficient, but do not ruin Ireland by siting ten here and ten there.

ONE of Ireland’s leading property developers has won a planning dispute - with his sister-in-law.

THE opening day of a Bord Pleanála hearing in Dungarvan yesterday into Waterford County Council’s proposal to develop a landfill outside the town, was told that in an ideal world waste would be buried five miles underground.

OFF-LICENCES will be banned under a €3 million regeneration plan for Cork’s historic Blackrock village.

SOUTH Tipperary is set to have its first incinerator in the coming year.

THE Competition Authority was called on to carry out an urgent investigation into the spiralling cost of diesel yesterday.

O’FLYNN Construction is to re-apply for permission to build a €200 million, 600-house development despite having the project turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

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

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.

The decision by An Bord Pleanála in relation to the enforcement of the Irish language conditions when granting planning permission is both significant and perplexing.

U2 BAND member David Evans — The Edge — was in the High Court yesterday for the second day of a hearing on his challenge to a Bord Pleanála decision.

PLANS to build a €300 million windfarm in Co Mayo are in doubt as fears grow that planning permission for the development will be appealed to Bord Pleanala.

A MAN has lost a bid to have either the Supreme Court or the European Court of Justice decide legal issues arising from his unsuccessful bid to bring a legal challenge to the granting of planning permission for a gas terminal in connection with the Corrib gas field.

AN Bord Pleanála confirmed yesterday that it has received objections to two so-called ‘green projects’ in Co Cork.

ANYONE refused planning permission by a local authority has little chance of winning with An Bord Pleanála because he or she does not have the resources to employ an architect, engineer or environmental health officer to get the advice needed to overturn the decision.

KERRY County Council yesterday gave the all-clear for the biggest-ever wind farm in the county, to be developed at a cost of €70m.