A TYPING error on the public notice announcing Eirgrid’s intention to apply for planning permission to build the much-needed €200 million north-south electricity interconnector has led to the planning application being thrown out.

THE Lord Mayor of Cork has called a meeting of the city’s TDs as part of a new drive to secure Government funding for an €80 million bridge that will help kickstart the city’s docklands regeneration.

CORK county manager Martin Riordan says he wants to see all allegations made against his planning staff and is confident he will be able to refute every one of them.

THE company behind plans to extract 4.5 million tonnes of material from a site in Co Clare has failed to secure planning permission for the proposal.

A MOTHER-OF-TWO with a debilitating illness moved out of a Limerick suburb to the countryside because the air quality would be better for her health.

ENGINEERING experts have told a Bord Pleanála oral hearing up to 70 lives could be saved over the next 30 years if a motorway is developed between Cork and Limerick.

AN Bord Pleanála has given the green light for the redevelopment of a “virtually derelict” site close to a major junction at the northern entrance to top tourist town Killarney.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has insisted he is complying with the “letter of the law” in the way he is handling an incinerator project which he and his constituents oppose.

CORK’S political leaders have joined forces to secure Government funding for the design of a bridge which could unlock the city’s docklands for regeneration.

MAJOR planning and banking bills have been passed by the Dáil in contentious circumstances.

THE Government must take a long-term view and invest in vital infrastructure to help regenerate Cork’s docklands, a respected developer said last night.

ON August 4 the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley, issued a directive, under EU regulations on birds and natural habitats, aimed at protecting special areas of conservation and special protected areas from potential damage and disturbance caused by quad bikes and scramblers.

TRANSPORT Minister Noel Dempsey has continued to insist the second phase of the Dublin-Navan rail service will go ahead, even though there is no specific reference to the project in the Government’s revised capital spending programme.

AN TAISCE are appealing against the planning approval granted last month for a proposed €460 million casino, sports and leisure venue in Co Tipperary.

THE development of a DART underground line is the essential “missing link” in the Dublin commuter rail network, An Bord Pleanála has been told.

LIMERICK City Council has been called on to carry out an urgent inspection of the site of the on-hold Opera (Shopping) Centre in the city centre as may of the buildings there are over 100 years old and have been unoccupied for years.

A MAJOR building programme at its Dublin headquarters is essential if RTÉ is to maintain its position as the national broadcaster into the digital age, director general Cathal Goan told a Bord Pleanála hearing yesterday.

ALDI has been refused planning permission for a store in Kenmare, for the second time.

DEVELOPMENT and infrastructure in Cork is being stifled by the National Roads Authority (NRA) and Government agency inaction – at a time while Dublin is poised for infrastructure developments like Metro North and the DART underground which could cost billions.

A PROPOSAL by a Killarney hotel to demolish 108 bedrooms and, instead, build shops and restaurants has been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.