A controversial wind farm proposal for turbines reaching 150 metres in height and 120-metre diameter blades in the heart of historic Sliabh Luachra area in Kerry has been granted permission by An Bord Pleanala.

Resolving the housing crisis may suggest measures that fall outside the normal comfort zone of communities facing extensive development.

Councillors are seeking a test case to be taken against An Bord Pleanála to prevent it from granting planning permission for hundreds of houses, as they claim it will swamp a village which hasn't the infrastructure to cope.

Attempts to preserve Dublin’s best-known shopping streets for high-end retail outlets are being reinforced with a recent decision by the planning authorities to reject plans for a doughnut shop on O’Connell St.

Plans have been lodged for a €40m development at the Donald Trump-owned Trump International Doonbeg golf resort in west Clare.

One of the country’s largest commercial and residential landlords is locked in a planning row with residents at Windmill Lane in Dublin’s docklands over a proposed change of use of its landmark building in a new business district.

Limerick civil engineering firm Roadbridge will co-partner Spanish giant FCC Construccion on the DAA’s €320m north runway project for Dublin Airport — with an extra €10m sweetener separately given by the authority to fund local community projects.

Additional steps are needed to address the rapidly worsening delays in An Bord Pleanála, according to Fianna Fáil's housing spokesperson Darragh O’Brien.

The city council’s head of environment insists the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme is the only solution, writes Eoin English.

Major design changes to Cork’s €140m flood defence scheme have been unveiled that will see demountable flood defences, rather than walls, used to protect the most historic city centre areas.

An environmental campaigner has succeeded in blocking plans to deposit 78,000 tonnes of soil on agricultural land in west Kerry which he claimed threatened to pollute a local river.

A large Victorian-style mansion in south Dublin acquired for €4.35m three years ago is to be demolished to make way for an even larger luxury home, despite opposition from a community group and some local residents.

The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has defended the additional construction costs of the new children’s hospital, insisting that the “right procurement strategy” had been taken.

Communities in the south-west are being ripped apart by the march of wind turbines into townlands, but a local authority says its hands are tied due to lack of firm legislation.

A compulsory purchase order (CPO) is the name of a notice received by a landowner stating that their land or property is going to be compulsorily purchased by a State Agency.

Plans are to be lodged for a €400m one million sq ft data centre on the outskirts of Ennis early next year.

Developing a civic amenity bring site in the midst of a number of housing estates on the northside of Cork city would result in an 'excessive concentration' of waste facilities in the area, according to An Bord Pleanála.

A decision about how to permanently memorialise victims of institutional child abuse has still not been made by the Department of Education five years after a planning setback — and nearly a decade since it was recommended in the landmark Ryan Report.

A hospital foundation says it now has to look for a new site in Cork City for its proposed cancer care centre after the project was shot down by An Bord Pleanála.

The regeneration of Cork’s docklands has stepped up another gear with work underway on a €125m office block on the northern quays which will be able to accommodate more than 2,250 workers by mid-2020.