A €100 MILLION business and retail park in Cork has been given the go-ahead, subject to conditions, by An Bord Pleanála.

The approval of the Docklands Strategic Development Zone by Bord Pleanála could deliver additional housing for almost 5,800 people.

An Bord Pleanala has approved plans for a controversial landfill in north Co Dublin.

An Bord Pleanala has granted permission for a €300m marina development in Greystone, Co Wicklow.

An Bord Pleanála has granted a Gaelscoil on Cork city’s northside another extension of temporary planning permission despite opposition from some local residents.

Two Cork landowners have mounted a High Court challenge against a decision of the authorities to grant planning permission for a windfarm near their home.

The ESB should start developing local power in Connemara rather than littering it with pylons, it was claimed today.

An Bord Pleanála has approved the construction of a 17-storey apartment block in Cork city centre.

AN €8.5 million plan to make the Great Blasket island a national historic park is in “grave jeopardy” following the refusal of An Bord Pleanála to give planning permission for a café, the biggest landowner on the island warned yesterday.

The developer behind a planning ‘fast-track’ €150m scheme for 600 houses and apartments in Co Cork, fears an observation from the neighbouring Cork City Council could delay or derail the supply of badly needed homes.

WATERFORD County Council’s controversial proposal to develop a major landfill has passed the crucial final planning stage following a four-year bitter battle.

GROUPS from different parts of Kerry will today lobby councillors in advance of a debate on a controversial rule about telecommunications masts in the county development plan.

The Cabinet will discuss the more than unfortunate fiasco surrounding the as yet unbuilt national children’s hospital today.

ISN’T it interesting to note that while your headline (November 21) proclaims the devastation wreaked on Cork by a “one-in-800 year flood”, An Bord Pleanála is considering the merits or otherwise of granting permission to construct two incinerators, one to burn hazardous waste and the other to burn non-hazardous waste, beside the shores of Cork harbour on a site prone to flooding on the basis of water levels reached in a one-in-100 year flood.

The Government is reportedly due to publish planned new legislation today aimed at fast-tracking major infrastructure projects.

An Bord Pleanála has told the High Court it made an error in its decision granting planning permission for a development of 500 housing units in north Dublin.

Most of the Planning Acts requirements for an appeal are mandatory

MORE than four years of “living hell” are to come to an end for two Waterford brothers following a Bord Pleanála ruling this week that the ESB must remove two steel pylons, which were erected by the company without planning permission.

An Bord Pleanála has refused permission for the development of Ireland's largest adventure centre planned for West Dublin, which could have created 1,000 jobs.