Cork county councillors have lodged an 11th-hour objection to plans by Indaver to build incinerators in Cork Harbour, and a local tourist body has done the same.

The managing director of building products firm, Tegral said yesterday the firm will do much better when there is an economic recovery in the regions.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland (formerly the National Roads Authority), has finally agreed to fund the redevelopment of one of the busiest roundabouts in Co Cork amid fears traffic using it would grind to a halt.

Residents opposed to a contested windfarm development in West Waterford are to hold a public information evening this week.

The minister for the defence and marine, Simon Coveney, will oppose controversial new plans for a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour.

Multinational coffee retailer Starbucks opened three stores in Cork city centre without obtaining the necessary planning permission, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

Cork City Council is to be congratulated for confronting the cavalier behaviour of heavyweight international coffee chain Starbucks, which opened three stores in Cork city centre without planning permission.

Owen O’Callaghan’s planning application for another major office development on Cork’s south quays has been lodged.

Donald Trump’s €10m plan to build a coastal rock barrier to protect his links resort at Doonbeg has been described as “a gift to the community”.

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.

Plans by Supermac’s chief Pat McDonagh for a network of motorway forecourts have been dealt a blow after An Bord Pleanála refused permission for a rest stop on the Limerick to Gort road, outside Ennis.

A major wind farm straddling the uplands of the Cork-Kerry border, across 32 townlands, has been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála.

The ports of Cork and Bantry handled nearly a million more tonnes of cargo last year than in 2014.

Housing support groups have broadly welcomed the Government’s housing plan, which has pledged to ramp up social housing supply, incentivise developers, and ease rental pressures.

The Government’s housing plan is set out in five specific pillars.