Planning Development Act News Today

A FORMER deputy chair of An Bord Pleanála living in West Cork has avoided jail after he was given a suspended sentence and fined €6,000 over his failure to declare his interests in a number of properties when a member of the board, in breach of planning law requirements.Paul H

Judge increased the overall sentence from two months to three but suspended it in full and imposed fines totalling €6,000 at Cork Circuit Appeals Court

Judge Colin Daly increased the overall sentence to three months but suspended it in full.

Architect breached planning law after failing to declare his interests in a number of properties

Paul Hyde, the board’s former deputy chair, faced two counts related to breaches while on board

The decision, which overturns a decision of the Court of Appeal, has wide-reaching consequences for judicial review planning actions that cite European law…

The decision, which overturns a decision of the Court of Appeal, has wide-reaching consequences for judicial review planning actions that cite European law…

The decision, which overturns a decision of the Court of Appeal, has wide-reaching consequences for judicial review planning actions that cite European law…

The decision, which overturns a decision of the Court of Appeal, has wide-reaching consequences for judicial review planning actions that cite European law…

The Nationalist Party will be asking parliament to consider changing the law to stop government agencies from abusing an exemption that allows emergency works without a permit. The change will be proposed in a private member’s bill that will be tabled by the Opposition in the coming days, weeks after the Ombudsman said that works carried out in Comino under this exemption broke the law. The works consisted of the construction of a service culvert on a dirt road to the Blue Lagoon, raising voc...