Planners are confident of getting the green light from An Bord Pleanála to build a new town in Co Cork, despite the current economic climate.

PROPERTY mogul, Sean Dunne, has been granted planning permission for a major residential, hotel and retail development at the D4Hotels site in Ballsbridge in Dublin.

CORK County Council is continuing to charge fees and development contributions for school building applications despite planning laws allowing them to waive such charges.

THE 10-year battle over Ireland’s first toxic waste incinerator raises questions about the decision-making processes, a leading environmental law expert has said.

Youghal Town Council is to complain to An Bord Pleanála over a planning decision delay of almost a year which it claims is stifling investment in the town.

PLANNING conditions which discriminate in favour of local residents or relatives of local residents could be unconstitutional, according to the Law Society.

Dublin City Council will not be going ahead with plans to put a compulsory purchase order on a park in Rathmines.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely could reportedly be forced to demolish a garage conversion next to his Co Cork holiday home as it breached planning laws.

Heritage body An Taisce is to appeal plans for a public car park on a Killarney town section of the Ring of Kerry.

A SENIOR member of Clare County Council said yesterday it was disgraceful that An Bord Pleanála has denied two local people the right to live in the Burren.

The Green Party has criticised An Bord Pleanála’s decision to approve the construction of a controversial toxic waste incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

Plans for three major housing developments in Dublin have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

Planners have called for local authorities to be given additional powers to ensure that the developers of large-scale housing projects are not merely obtaining planning permission for the purpose of 'flipping' the sites and turning a profit.

Supermac’s owner Pat McDonagh has restarted plans to put in place a €10m forecourt plaza on the Limerick to Galway motorway.

THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has sent documentation to An Bord Pleanála informing the board they have no issue with the granting of planning permission for Indaver’s planned 240,000 tonne municipal and hazardous waste incinerator at Cork Harbour.

THE EPA seems almost certain to grant a license to the proposed incinerator at Ringaskiddy on the basis of An Bord Pleanála’s decision.

An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, has today welcomed An Bord Pleanála's refusal of plans for a controversial bypass around Slane village.