Twenty years after a lobby group protested in Brussels over the poor state of a Co Kerry peninsula road, serious discussions have finally commenced on finalising land acquisition for the national secondary route.

Submissions have been made in relation to the proposed Albert Quay office development, for which Owen O’Callaghan has sought permission in Cork’s south docklands.

Waste management company Indaver is in talks with Cork County Council to bury, in a mothballed landfill site, up to 40,000 tonnes of ash yearly from a proposed €160m controversial incinerator project in Ringaskiddy.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge brought against An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to grant planning permission for a nine-screen cinema, café, and retail units in Navan, Co Meath.

County councillors have voted unanimously to notify Bord Pleanála of their total opposition to Indaver Ireland’s plan to build a €160m incinerator in Cork harbour.

An Bord Pleanála is facing as many legal challenges now as it did during the building boom, with a growing proportion of its decisions being taken for judicial review.

Last week, I described appealing a decision of the Planning Authority to grant or refuse planning permission, which is in the news following a recent High Court case. 

An order restricting operations on a windfarm in Cork has been stayed until June to allow the developer seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the Court of Appeal’s findings it acted in “material” breach of planning permission.

An Bord Pleanála has refused to defer an oral hearing into proposals to build a €160m incinerator in Cork’s lower harbour.

An oral hearing into proposals to build a massive incinerator in Cork Harbour is expected to take at least three weeks to complete.

It is hoped that revised plans for a €180m road between Cork and Ringaskiddy will ease the fears of some residents’ associations who expressed major concerns with the initial blueprint when it was launched in October.

The company proposing to build a waste-to-energy plant in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, has dismissed claims that incinerators account for 70% of all dioxins or that an explosion which recently rocked one of its Belgian sites could happen here.

A €6.5m solar farm, part of an independent power company’s plans for 11 such projects in Co Cork, has been refused planning permission.

Babies in buggies, grannies in geansais emblazoned with the slogan ‘No to toxic waste incineration’, hazmat suits, and lots of surgical masks — the carpark of the Carrigaline Court Hotel resembled a bizarre mix of playground fare and the post-apocalyptic as hundreds of people protested against plans to build an incinerator locally.

There were angry exchanges and at least three calls for an adjournment at the opening day of An Bord Pleanála’s oral hearing into proposals by waste management company Indaver Ireland to build a €160m incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

The general manager of the Donald Trump Doonbeg golf resort said yesterday that the outcome of plans for the €10m Trump rock barrier at Doonbeg “will determine the future of our business, the local community and its citizens”.

Two developers looking to address the shortage of third-level student accommodation in Dublin have had contrasting fortunes.

A fast-track planning process for large developments and a special ‘use it or lose it’ infrastructure fund for local authorities are options being considered to help solve the housing crisis, Housing Minister Simon Coveney has said.