ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has dismissed suggestions that more than 1,000 planning appeal decisions made four years ago are legally invalid.

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".

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

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.

IT appears that, eventually, people in high places have become aware of the shenanigans and skulduggery that An Taisce have been getting up to for a number of years.

Fine Gael Louth TD, Fergus O'Dowd, today slammed the decision of An Bord Pleanala to locate an incinerator beside the town of Drogheda.

AN BORD Pleanála has been heavily criticised for refusing planning permission for a €25 million five-star hotel in Kinsale.

BUSINESS at the planning appeals board, An Bord Pleanála, almost halved in two years as the slump in building took hold.

RYANAIR has vowed to continue its legal challenge to oppose the building of a controversial second terminal at Dublin Airport if it is granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.

ONE of the country’s largest builders has been granted planning permission for a €210 million development, less than 300 yards from where another of his major proposals was turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

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.

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). *

The company is currently meeting with employees from West Offaly and Longford's Lough Ree power stations to inform them of the plan for the closure of the stations.

A disused factory site earmarked for a supermarket and a restaurant has been set ablaze for the fourth time in almost eight months.

A local authority is being taken to task by the National Roads Authority (NRA) for allegedly creating traffic hazards on one of the country’s busiest tourist routes.

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.