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.

ONE of the country’s largest builders has been granted planning permission for a €210 million development, less than 300 yards from where another of his major proposals was turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

FEARS that a badly needed ring road for Tralee are being long-fingered by the National Roads Authority (NRA) have been voiced by Kerry county engineer Tom Curran.

AN ENVIRONMENTAL company that was refused planning for a compost facility in west Waterford has been given the green light by An Bord Pleanála.

MICHAEL MCDOWELL, we were told this week, had depicted himself as the ‘Messiah of Dublin South East’ who had engaged in the “final betrayal”.

STATE agencies can continue to charge people €20 and €45 to object to or make an observation on a planning application, according to an opinion from the European Court in Luxembourg.

PLANS to create Ireland’s first commercial anaerobic waste digester have been turned down by Cork County Council.

THE Government will find out later this week if its controversial introduction of fees for people wanting to lodge planning objections is in breach of EU legislation.

AN estimated €100 million worth of houses are being proposed for Carrigtwohill, which is set to become a major commuter town when the Cork-Midleton railway reopens at the end of next year.

AN Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a multi-million euro power station in Cork, much to the delight of local residents.

A MAJOR row has erupted again between the residents of a Dublin square and the owner of a park after it was opened up yesterday as a public car park.

A TOTAL of 33 objections have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála against the decision by Dublin City Council to grant planning permission for the €365 million redevelopment of Lansdowne Road.

AN Bord Pleanála is to hold a second oral hearing on a long-running planning application for a 17-storey tower block in Cork City.

THE Cork engineer who has appealed the decision of Limerick County Council to grant permission for a €100 million private hospital in Adare, yesterday accused the council of withholding information from him.