A ROW over a county council’s insistence that a new housing scheme be restricted to occupants who speak Irish is to go to an oral hearing next week — where evidence will have to be given through Irish.

The chairman designate of Eirgrid has pledged to work with communities over the issue of pylons.

Apple has been granted planning permission for its major Hollyhill expansion proposal, clearing the way for the creation of 1,000 extra jobs, writes Gordon Deegan.

A people’s alliance that has fought a long-running battle to stop a €160m incinerator being built in Cork Harbour has launched an online site to make it easier and cheaper for people to lodge their objections to the company’s latest bid for planning permission.

Objectors to the Trump Doonbeg resort’s plans to put in place coastal protection works are to miss out on challenging the plan at a public planning forum.

A State fisheries body has succeeded in stopping the development of holiday homes on the Ring of Kerry over fears it could cause pollution to a local river.

A SECTION of new dual carriageway linking Waterford and Dublin has been given the green light, despite a report which clearly says permission for the route should be refused.

Planning for solar farms is being “kept under review”, the minister with responsibility for planning Simon Coveney has said, amid growing concerns about the lack of national guidelines.

A farmer faces the possibility this week of losing his 100-acre dairy holding after challenging the grant of planning for the construction, against his wishes, of a road across his land by a wind power company.

MAJOR players in the horseracing and leisure fields are expected today to publicly back a proposed €460 million hotel, casino and entertainment venue on an 800-acre rural site.

The Port of Cork may seek private sector investment to help it develop new cargo-handling facilities in Ringaskiddy.

LOCAL councils should not zone land for development which does not have access to public transport and services, the chair of the planning appeals board has warned.

Proposals to continue using the Reeks Gateway building in Killarney as a medical centre are meeting with further planning delays.

WESTON Aerodrome’s appeal against An Bord Pleanála’s rejection of its application to turn former farmyard buildings on its lands into aircraft hangars was been dismissed.

TRAFFIC congestion in and around Waterford city will not be eased for another three years at least as An Bord Pleanála considers various design aspects of the long-awaited bypass.

CHILDREN attending a Limerick city school will have to continue using converted toilets as classrooms due to a planning row.

A legal bid to curtail the sound of music and hours of skating at an ice rink near Dundrum Town Centre has been thrown out by a High Court judge.