The employers' body IBEC is calling for the establishment of a special court system to speed up legal challenges to infrastructure projects.

Forecourt operator, Applegreen, has moved to get ahead of Supermac’s and be the first to provide a motorway service stop along the M18, connecting Limerick to Gort.

Final planning permission has been granted for more than 250 wind turbines in just the past two years, according to an analysis of cases before An Bord Pleanála (ABP). *

OUTRAGED community groups will seek an oral hearing into yesterday’s decision by the Environment Protection Agency to grant a draft licence to Indaver (Ireland) for waste incineration plants in Cork and Meath.

PLANS for a multi-million-euro hotel and commercial centre have been turned down by An Bord Pleanála — as the project would have blocked views of the Rock of Cashel.

A proposed new UCC student accommodation building — the 255-bed development at Victoria Cross — is set to rise to eight and up 10 storeys, across four linked blocks, on the former western suburban site of the Crow’s Nest bar.

A paralysed woman is heartbroken because plans to build her “dream home” in Co Limerick were refused planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.

IRISH planning authorities can continue to charge an administrative fee for making a submission on planning applications and appeals involving environmental impact assessments, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

Dublin City Council has granted partial planning permission to the company behind the redevelopment of the old Jury's - Berkeley Court Hotel site in Ballsbridge in Dublin.

SURFERS have thrown into doubt Clare County Council’s plans for a €6 million pier at Doolin for summer 2012.

An Bord Pleanála has heard that the planned new children's hospital at the site of the existing Mater Hospital in Dublin will provide a "world class medical facility".

Despite serious setbacks in the planning process, there are still hopes of developing cycle lanes along one of the country’s most scenic tourist routes.

An environmental group has secured permission to bring a High Court challenge against a decision of An Bord Pleanála to extend planning permission to develop a Liquid Natural Gas terminal on the Shannon Estuary.

AN anti-incinerator lobby group has sought clarification from An Bord Pleanála on whether the company seeking to build an incinerator in Cork has met with the planning board in advance of its decision on the project, due soon.

MILLIONAIRE businessman and leading Fianna Fáil supporter Jim Mansfield looks set for another major confrontation with the planning authorities over his plans to build a €50 million conference centre as part of his Citywest complex in south-west Dublin.