An Bord Pleanála has rejected an application by a wind energy company to grant it leave to apply for “substitute consent” to enable eight turbines that have been operating beyond their planning remit in Waterford to remain in operation.

Plans for new vehicular access point and expanded parking facilities at a school in Cloyne, Co Cork, have been approved despite objections from a number of local residents.

The plans have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála, which is due to make a decision on whether to grant permission in 16 weeks.

The appeals board approved the apartment plan in spite of the strong recommendation by its own inspector to refuse planning.

A property development firm has obtained a High Court order blocking an objection against its plans for 60 new houses near Blarney from being considered by An Bord Pleanála.

A busy southside supermarket in Cork City is proposed for expansion into a neighbourhood centre.

Waterford Council has refused planning permission for a windfarm near the Comeragh Mountains for the second time in four years.

An 86-year-old man and his wife face the prospect of a new four-lane €120m roadway going through their four-bedroom home.

George Harding left school at an early age but never lost his love of poetry. Following his retirement from a successful bicycle business, he went to university and got back on the literary saddle, he tells Colette Sheridan.

Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for a 5,400 sq m solar farm near Macroom, Co Cork.

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An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the first motorway service station to be built in Cork county.

Permission for the redevelopment of a former textile factory in Youghal has been overturned by An Bord Pleanala.

A fourth major supermarket, Aldi, has been given the go-ahead near Youghal’s town centre.

A nursing home faces “a real possibility of closure” after the National Roads Authority succeeded, on grounds of traffic safety, in overturning planning approval for an extension.

US billionaire Donald Trump has finally won his battle against plans for a windfarm near Doonbeg golf course — which he owns — thanks to a little-known freshwater pearl mussel.

AMERICAN billionaire Donald Trump does not seem a natural eco warrior but yesterday’s An Bord Pleanála ruling that brought a four-year battle over a proposed windfarm near his Doonbeg golf resort to an end may cause the Republican presidential hopeful a moment’s pause for thought.

Pre-tax profits at the hotel group that co-owns the luxury five-star Merrion Hotel, in Dublin, increased 9% last year to £2.19m (€3m).

A challenge by An Taisce over planning approval for a controversial €65m road widening scheme on the N86 road between Tralee and Dingle has opened before the Commercial Court.

Cork City Council has confirmed it has received a complaint after the northern stand of Páirc Uí Chaoimh was flattened as part of the stadium’s redevelopment. The demolition had not been listed under the project’s planning permission.