THE oral hearing which will decide whether the €365 million redevelopment of Lansdowne Road can go ahead will start in Dublin this morning.

MORE than 2,500 formal objections to plans by the four local authorities in Dublin to build a large incinerator on a site in Poolbeg at the mouth of the River Liffey have been lodged.

POLITICIANS canvassing for votes in the general election are getting plenty of ‘stick’ on the doorsteps from people experiencing difficulties in obtaining planning permission in rural areas, a planning conference heard.

NAKED political opportunism is the charge confronting Tánaiste Michael McDowell following his declaration that the Progressive Democrats will not take part in any future Government which supports the incinerator planned for his Dublin constituency.

HUNDREDS of residents opposed to plans for a waste incinerator at Poolbeg are expected to show up at an oral hearing into the controversial project today.

THE summer holiday plans of hundreds of families were in tatters yesterday following confirmation that a popular caravan park is to be sold after a long-running planning saga.

THE Dublin Airport Authority has claimed that its proposed second terminal at Dublin Airport is arguably “the most important public building in a generation.”

RYANAIR said yesterday that it doesn’t believe the European Commission (EC) will force it to sell its 25.17% stake in Aer Lingus.

RYANAIR has accused the Dublin Airport Authority of “monopoly abuse” over its plans to press ahead with a controversial second terminal at Dublin Airport.

YOU published a rather puerile letter headlined ‘Time to take a stand against urban sprawl’ (Irish Examiner, December 16).

CONTROVERSIES over planning and housing look set to continue in An Daingean in 2007.

DESPITE strong warnings from county manager Martin Riordan and senior planning officials, councillors in Kerry are continuing to rezone an excess amount of land for housing, planners have claimed.

I WISH to appraise your readers of the current development threat to Kenmare, Co Kerry, and warn every other small town lest a similar fate awaits.

A MAJOR protest against what is described as the overdevelopment of Kenmare — one of Kerry’s fastest growing towns — is planned for tomorrow.

AN objector to the €40 million Thomond Park development will not appeal a decision of Limerick City Council yesterday to grant planning permission.

THE €40 million Thomond Park rugby stadium in Limerick faces a further possible planning delay, despite being granted planning permission.

ONE of the country’s largest private waste-disposal firms has resubmitted plans for a super dump to Cork County Council.

A QUARRY company will close with the loss of almost 300 jobs if it cannot develop a site in east Cork.

AN BÓRD Pleanála has enough evidence to confirm a contentious compulsory purchase order (CPO) on 10 hectares of prime land in Cork’s docklands, a local authority said yesterday.

FORMER Fine Gael councillor Jim Fay alleged at the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday he had to put £5,000 cash in an envelope for an official in An Bord Pleanála to get planning permission.