Cork County Council has lodged a number of applications with an Bord Pleanála and the Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government for a €10m project which it hopes will turn the country's most south-westerly island into a major tourist attraction.

A third of applications for fast-track housing developments in the last two years have been turned down.

One of the largest housing developments proposed for the Cork city area has An Bord Pleanála approval.

The owners of the Savoy Cinema in Dublin have put the brakes on the Marlet Group amending its ambitious plans for the Apollo House, the College House, and Screen Cinema site on Pearse St.

A Co Kerry brewery has won a planning row to continue the operations of its current plant after being granted retrospective planning permission for three large storage tanks.

Kerry County Council has apologised to a landowner on the proposed South Kerry Greenway for “a genuine” mistake writing to his dead father and then inviting the deceased man to a consultation meeting.

The Irish Planning Institute (IPI) — the all-island body for professional planners engaged in physical, spatial and environmental planning in Ireland — has announced the election of four new members as Fellows at the institute’s annual Autumn Planning Conference.

The Cabinet has given the green light for a €280m upgrade of the N22 Cork-Kerry road, including the long-awaited Macroom bypass.

The Compulsory Purchase Order for the South Kerry Greenway was being “triggered” not for a public road but for amenity and tourism - an altogether different thing, the oral hearing into the greenway has been told.

Property development firm, Thomas Thompson Holdings (TTH) is embroiled in a planning row with a rival property company in Carlow.

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.

An application for a gaming licence for an arcade in Mitchelstown has been dismissed in court - because of a 35-year-old by-law that specifically bans such businesses in the Co Cork town.

A planning row has erupted in Tralee over plans by a local secondary school to create a new pedestrian access gate to the town’s main park.

The Donald Trump-owned Trump Doonbeg resort in Co Clare has recorded its first operating profit since the Trump organisation purchased the resort for a knock down price in 2014.

A planning application for more than 230 houses in Cobh has been criticised by locals for its reliance on country roads for access.

Developers could break ground on the O'Devaney Gardens project as early as next year.

Local residents in the Cork village of Watergrasshill have emerged victorious in a planning row over a telecommunications mast located within a few metres of their homes.

Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae is facing further delay over his plans to convert a former pub in Tralee into apartments in the latest chapter in a long-running planning row with some local residents in the north Kerry town.

The houses and apartments will be built at a site at Kilcarbery with 310 of the units earmarked for social housing.

Ambitious goals will attract billions in investment, create thousands of jobs, and regenerate coastal communities, writes David Connolly.