Agri-Business
Cowen: Government needs to deliver on planning reform
Fianna Fáil TD for Laois-Offaly, Barry Cowen, has claimed that Ireland’s international business reputation is being damaged by uncertainty around...
Agri-Business
Fianna Fáil TD for Laois-Offaly, Barry Cowen, has claimed that Ireland’s international business reputation is being damaged by uncertainty around...
Agri-Business
An application has been made in the High Court seeking permission for a judicial review into the granting of planning...
Rural Life
Work is underway to change Ireland’s planning-permission system in a bid to prevent long-term delays to the development of projects,...
Environment
The minister of state with responsibility for planning has poured cold water on a move by Green Party senators to...
Rural Life
By Gordon Deegan A Larry Goodman-owned organic meat producer, Good Herdsmen, has emerged as one of 26 parties to appeal...
Rural Life
A Kerry county councillor is calling for an exemption for the families of landowners to allow them to build houses...
Rural Life
An Bord Pleanála has decided to refuse substitute consent for a controversial wind farm in Co. Galway. In 2003, there...
Rural Life
A genuine economic or social need will have to be established to justify new rural housing in a significant portion...
Environment
Planning permission is being sought for the development of a biomass pellet production facility in Co. Leitrim. Desmond Rooney has...
Agri-Business
By Gordon Deegan Plans for a €40 million beef processing plant for Banagher, Co. Offaly, have been put on hold after...
Environment
Planning permission has been sought for a 148ha solar farm in Co. Meath. The company, Solar Farmers Ltd, which is...
Beef
By Gordon Deegan Plans for a €40 million beef processing plant for Banagher, Co. Offaly, face a fresh planning hurdle....
Agri-Business
Offaly County Council has granted conditional approval for plans to extend and develop a meat processing facility worth a reported...
Rural Life
Controversial plans to build a crematorium in Kanturk have been put to rest, as An Bord Pleanála has upheld a...
Buildings
Planning and building control systems remain open for business, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Eoghan Murphy has confirmed....
Rural Life
By Gordon Deegan Intel Ireland has requested An Bord Pleanála to use rarely used powers to dismiss, what it claims,...
Rural Life
Members of Kerry County Council have put forward a joint motion calling on Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government...
Rural Life
Sinn Fein is planning to introduce what it calls a “vital piece” of legislation to remove obstacles to planning permission...