Chambers Ireland have welcomed Bord Pleanala's approval for a new interconnector linking Ireland to Wales.

Planning permission has been granted for a new cultural centre, including prayer rooms, for Muslims living in Clonmel, Co Tipperary despite strong opposition from a large group of local residents.

The decision to locate the national children’s hospital at Dublin’s St James’s Hospital is to be welcomed, not because the location is head and shoulders above other options but because this saga has dragged on for far too long.

Plans for the country’s largest district heating system, which involves a timber-based biomass plant in Killarney, Co Kerry, have been rejected by the town council.

A CITY has agreed to pay €10 million in compensation to the Munster Agricultural Society (MAS) to acquire its historic Showgrounds home in Cork.

CIÉ confirmed yesterday that its stalled multi-million-euro plans to regenerate and expand Cork’s dated Kent railway station are back on track.

UNIVERSITY College Cork is seeking to add two extra floors to a €60 million IT building on which construction recently started, despite a lack of full clearance for its funding.

PLANS for a gas-powered electricity station that would generate enough power to light 300,000 homes have been turned down by Cork County Council.

OPPONENTS to one of Waterford city’s regeneration projects fear that valuable artefacts may be destroyed by developers’ digging.

STATE agencies can continue to charge people €20 and €45 to object to or make an observation on a planning application, according to an opinion from the European Court in Luxembourg.

A MAJOR row has erupted again between the residents of a Dublin square and the owner of a park after it was opened up yesterday as a public car park.

No specific guidelines are available for solar energy farms in Irish planning but applications are being lodged in an abundance along Kerry, Cork and the west coast.

Neans McSweeney, South-East Correspondent