Showing posts with label planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planning. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Locals voice concern at proposed McDonald's

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FAST-FOOD GIANT McDonald’s is planning to locate a “drive-thru” restaurant backing on to a primary school in a residential area of Sandymoun...
Saturday, 8 August 2009

Shifting port out of Dublin 'not justified'

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THE COSTS of closing Dublin Port and relocating its operations out of the city would not be justified, a report commissioned by Minister for...
Friday, 8 May 2009

Warning on effects of Cork waste plan

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A HAZARDOUS waste incinerator planned for Ringaskiddy in Cork harbour could worsen traffic delays on an already congested route, according t...
Friday, 3 April 2009

EPA calls for move to low-carbon economy

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ECONOMIC RECOVERY when it comes must involve Ireland developing a low-carbon “smart, green economy”, the Environmental Protection Agency (EP...
Monday, 16 March 2009

€100m plan for station is on track

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IARNROD Eireann is to press ahead with plans to build a €100m skyscraper to incorporate a new train station in the middle of Dublin, despite...
Sunday, 8 March 2009

Challenge to student residence 'unrealistic'

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PLANNING LAWS are not intended to make life impossible for developers or local authorities, the Supreme Court has said as it dismissed a loc...
Sunday, 14 December 2008

Mellon submits Knockrabo plans

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Developer and entrepreneur Niall Mellon of Knockrabo Developments has applied for further changes to the proposed development on part of the...

Mellon submits Knockrabo plans

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Developer and entrepreneur Niall Mellon of Knockrabo Developments has applied for further changes to the proposed development on part of the...
Thursday, 20 November 2008

Balbriggan plan appealed

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MOYLARAGH ROAD Residents has appealed a scheme of over 1,000 homes beside their estate in Balbriggan, Co Dublin. They say it is causing them...
Sunday, 5 October 2008

An Taisce celebrates anniversary

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Environmental and heritage group An Taisce is 60 years old today. The organisation has been safeguarding sites of national importance since ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Flatley’s 9,100 sq ft island idyll rejected by planners

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PLANS by dancer Michael Flatley to build a "modest" holiday retreat covering more than 9,000 square feet of a Co Kerry island have...
Friday, 8 August 2008

New powers on CPO for An Bord Pleanála

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A NEW Harbours Bill will give State-owned port companies the power to invest outside their own harbours as part of a Government move to enco...
Thursday, 17 April 2008

Contentious €25m Lahinch housing plan gets green light

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CLARE COUNTY Council has disregarded the objections of the Sisters of Mercy and other Lahinch residents and given permission for a contentio...
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Patio area planned for Collins home challenged

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A PATIO decking area in Kells Bay, Co Kerry, attached to the rebuilding of the residence of former MEP and minister Gerry Collins has run in...
Friday, 21 March 2008

An Irishman's Diary

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TODAY is World Poetry Day, as designated by Unesco. So it seems as good a time as any to publish this curious document I found recently in a...
Monday, 17 March 2008

Judge criticises wind farm project

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A DEVELOPMENT society in Derrybrien, Co Galway, scene of a massive bogslide in 2003, has won its High Court challenge to the manner in which...
Saturday, 23 February 2008

Villagers to fight development plan

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Residents of a tiny Donegal village on the border with Derry say they will fight proposals to build a new commuter town there. Plans are to ...
Thursday, 17 January 2008

Council rejects David Arnold's extra units in Sandyford

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Developer David Arnold has been refused planning permission to add 38 apartments to a previously permitted development of 262 residential un...

Council rejects David Arnold's extra units in Sandyford

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Developer David Arnold has been refused planning permission to add 38 apartments to a previously permitted development of 262 residential un...
Monday, 15 October 2007

'Mismatch' in green image sold to tourists and reality

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There is a mismatch between the green image of Ireland being sold to tourists and the reality that greets them when they arrive, Fáilte Irel...