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.

DIOXIN levels in the Cork Harbour area could increase by up to 5% when the planned incinerators are in operation — but, even with such increases, emissions would still fall well below legal limits, an oral hearing was told.

INCREASED bin charges, more taxation or increased state borrowing will have to be considered next year if we have to fork out up to €500,000 a day in EU fines for over reliance on landfills, the managing director of Indaver Ireland said.

INDAVER will today claim its plans for a toxic waste incinerator in east Cork will not only resolve Ireland’s mounting waste mountain but will also deal with the expensive problem of contaminated soils and sludges at the former Irish Steel facility in the region.

MINISTER for the Environment John Gormley has said the future of the Cork harbour island of Haulbowline will be decided at a cabinet meeting in coming weeks.

THE Department of the Environment is set to raise several new concerns about the impact of two controversial incinerators on legally protected wildlife zones in Cork Harbour.

DUBLIN City Council has been accused of flouting its own planning regulations by allowing work to begin on a major shopping centre within metres of a national monument linked to the 1916 Rising.

THE ambitious €1 billion Atlantic Quarter project in Cork’s docklands got the green light from planners last night.

AN oral hearing is to be held by An Bord Pleanála next month into the controversial €54m incinerators planned for Cork Harbour.

AMBITIOUS but scaled-down plans to redevelop Cork’s landmark Capitol Cinema site have been given the green light.

CORK county manager Martin Riordan has described last Monday’s protest sit-in at County Hall as “disgraceful and unnecessary”.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to co-locate public and private hospitals at six sites around the country are not likely to be affected by budget changes to capital allowance schemes.

OVER a dozen planned public transport projects have been postponed as a result of cutbacks totalling more than €500 million introduced by the Government since last October’s budget.