Two Dublin hotels have been refused permission to add extra floors to their buildings.

A legal challenge to the construction of a hazardous waste incinerator in Cork Harbour has been adjourned for three weeks by the High Court in Dublin.

AN Independent Killarney councillor has been censured under the ethics in public office legislation after striking a deal with a local developer on condition that he withdrew an appeal to An Bord Pleanála.

Local residents in the Cork village of Watergrasshill have emerged victorious in a planning row over a telecommunications mast located within a few metres of their homes.

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.

AT a time when planning authorities elsewhere are trying to keep traffic out of city centres, Kilkenny’s application to An Bord Pleanála for permission to construct and inner relief road which will funnel heavy traffic through the ancient centre of the city is worryingly out of step with the rest of the world.

Applegreen’s plans of expanding its motorway service stop network has received a blow.

Why some of the data included as part of Indaver Ireland’s application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy appears identical to a 2008 application by another company for an entirely different facility in Co Meath remained a mystery yesterday on the final day of an oral hearing into the proposed project.

An Taisce, the National Trust, has expressed its concern at the granting of planning permission for the first phase of the Euro Chinese Trading Hub in Co. Westmeath.

Plans for a controversial new superdump in north Dublin were today given the green light.

Environmentalists today vowed to take their fight to Europe after An Bord Pleanala approved the controversial M3 motorway through 2000-year-old newly discovered ruins at the Hill of Tara.

Planning permission has been granted for a controversial solar farm in West Cork, despite opposition from a local community group.

Freshly Chopped is facing closure of one of its flagship outlets after it was refused retention planning permission for its branch on Dublin’s Grafton St.

Plans for the development of almost 300 new homes in Carrigtwohill have been put on hold following an objection from the village’s community council.

Muslims in Galway are to appeal their local council’s rejection of their efforts to retain a controversial mosque. It was operated without planning permission.