An Bord Pleanála has approved an €80m new housing development in Waterford city which will provide over 340 new homes on the outskirts of the city against the advice of its own inspector.

PEOPLE living in one of the worst affected areas of the Newcastle West floods are calling on Limerick County Council to review a decision to grant planning permission for a leading housing development for lands that were flooded.

Dublin's first co-living housing block has been refused planning permission.

Cork County Council has lodged a number of applications with an Bord Pleanála and the Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government for a €10m project which it hopes will turn the country's most south-westerly island into a major tourist attraction.

Plans for new vehicular access point and expanded parking facilities at a school in Cloyne, Co Cork, have been approved despite objections from a number of local residents.

Adare village is set to continue as a major traffic snag on the Limerick/South West N21 route with confirmation that the National Roads Authority (NRA) has shot down a request by Limerick County Council to activate a third bypass plan.

A LOCAL authority has been accused by An Bord Pleanála of putting major road developments at risk.

The third phase of a multi million euro eco-tourism project in Co Roscommon has been turned down by An Bord Pleanala.

An Bord Pleanála has given the green light for a piece of the €16m upgrade of the five-star Dromoland Castle in Co Clare.

A HUSBAND and wife have lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála against the decision of Waterford County Council to grant planning permission for a €52 million hotel and holiday home development close to the resort of Clonea outside Dungarvan.

PROPOSALS for the largest single housing development outside of Dublin, estimated to be worth €875 million, have been turned down by local authority planners.

RESIDENTS on a Shannon Airport flight path have discovered they were barking up the wrong tree when they objected to planned new dog kennels.

HERITAGE campaigners have told An Bord Pleanála they fear an historic city landmark will become nothing more than a “curiosity” if a €150 million events centre goes ahead on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

Attempts to preserve Dublin’s best-known shopping streets for high-end retail outlets are being reinforced with a recent decision by the planning authorities to reject plans for a doughnut shop on O’Connell St.

An oral hearing into proposals to build a massive incinerator in Cork Harbour is expected to take at least three weeks to complete.