City and county councils are biased in favour of granting planning permission to developments due to the revenues completed projects bring in, a new report concludes.

AMID growing concern about the delays in moving ahead with a €500 million project on the Shannon estuary, senior government figures have been asked to get involved.

UP TO 1,200 jobs for Waterford have been promised by the backers of a huge urban development, which was yesterday given permission by An Bord Pleanála.

IT HAS emerged that Cork is to the forefront of an EU drive to create “Motorways of the Seas”, with the aim of reducing pollution and container transport costs.

THE Government drive to encourage women to breastfeed could be jeopardised if the Indaver Ireland proposal for a hazardous waste incinerator goes ahead in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

CROKE PARK will be unavailable for next year’s prestigious World Handball Championships because of its handball centre’s protracted planning permission process.

Accumulated profits at the main firm owned by rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll last year almost topped the €6m mark.

An application for a gaming licence for an arcade in Mitchelstown has been dismissed in court - because of a 35-year-old by-law that specifically bans such businesses in the Co Cork town.

Building upward is an important part of the drive to make Irish cities livable, writes Sarah Thatt-Foley

THE Turf Club is still awaiting a final decision from An Bord Pleanala to enable construction of the much publicised new grandstand at the Curragh to commence.

IN your report headlined ‘Department warns An Bord Pleanála of risks from harbour incinerators’ (February 25), you quote the developer Indaver as saying “the incinerators are ‘must-have’ for this country if we want to avoid hefty EU levies for sending too much waste to landfill.”

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has been criticised for agreeing reluctantly to a “fleeting” appearance before an oral hearing into plans for a €226 million container terminal in Cork Harbour.

SHELL unveiled plans for its onshore gas pipeline yesterday with a route twice as far away from houses as the previous design.

The number of houses granted planning permission in 2019 fell for the first time in seven years, as the number of apartments granted permission rose sharply, according to new CSO figures.

Plans by Dublin City Council to pedestrianise part of College Green in Dublin would be more likely to receive support if they carry out a trial of their proposals.