RESIDENTS lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála yesterday against plans for another apartment block in a Cork suburb.

ANGRY residents at the site of the country’s first commercial toxic waste incinerator vowed last night to take their battle to the High Court.

FILM-MAKER Neil Jordan is for a second time objecting to a waterfront holiday village almost next door to his West Cork home.

A MULTI-MILLION euro hotel and holiday home development that could have created more than 100 jobs has been given the thumbs down by An Bord Pleanála.

CONTROVERSIAL ex-minister Ivor Callely may be forced to reconvert back into a garage a guest room development at his plush countryside holiday home in West Cork.

NOBODY wants to live beside an incinerator or a dump. Yet, there is growing pressure on local authorities to provide such controversial facilities as Ireland struggles to cope with a mountain of toxic, commercial and domestic waste.

PLANS for a second private hospital in Waterford have been thrown into doubt by a sole objection which could delay the project.

HOMEOWNERS in some of the country’s most expensive neighbourhoods are contributing to a surge in planning appeals by attempting to build lucrative developments in their back gardens.

IN the David v Goliath struggle to protect the 5,000-year-old Tara landscape from a section of the M3 tolled motorway, it would seem that Goliath has won, at least for now.

A UCC PLAN to create an outreach university has been rejected by An Bord Pleanála.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche yesterday warned local authorities that it will be unacceptable to increase charges to the public in order to fund pay increases due next year under benchmarking and national wage agreements.

WORK on the building of a new pier in Cromane, a well-known fishing and seaside area of Co Kerry, could also help resolve an age-old erosion problem in the area.

RESIDENTS living beside Adamstown — Dublin’s newest town — want guarantees that the area won’t become the State’s biggest traffic jam.

IF Mary O’Leary ever runs short of reasons to be cynical about the planning system, she casts her mind back to January 2004 to restock.

A PETITION has been signed by 5,000 people in support of the development of two major supermarkets that would create hundreds of jobs in Tipperary.

HUNDRED of millions of euro have flowed and will continue to follow in train in new developments in Cork’s affluent western suburbs.

AN Bórd Pleanála’s decision to give the country’s first municipal waste incinerator the green light was bound to trigger outrage among environmentalist.

HE may be famous for his flying feet, but Michael Flatley’s latest steps may yet prevent the Lord of the Dance star from holding his lavish wedding at his Cork home.

AN BORD PLEANÁLA’S decision to grant planning permission for over 2,300 new homes and apartments on the site of Dublin’s former Phoenix Park racecourse site has angered opponents of the €670m scheme.

FEARS are growing that work on the long-awaited Waterford to Kilcullen route could be delayed.