Regulator s concern at rezoning Naas areas prone to flooding
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The national planning watchdog has expressed concern that Kildare County Council is proposing to rezone several parcels of undeveloped lands on the outskirts of Naas that it claims are prone to flooding.
The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) claims proposals in the council’s new draft Local Area Plan (LAP) for Naas to rezone lands for housing and industrial use in a number of locations identified as high-risk flood areas are premature.
The OPR was established in 2019 and one of its roles is to independently assess the zoning decisions of local authority members in local area and development plans.
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Sell-out and exaggeration claims in bitter Offaly wind energy split
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AMID allegations of sell-outs, underhanded activity, exaggeration and emotional rhetoric, Offaly councillors voted by the narrowest of margins against a proposal to exclude Lemanaghan Bog entirely from an area in the county where wind farms may be permitted.
Instead of adopting a motion from Cllr Ken Smollen for Lemanaghan s outright exclusion, the council opted by nine votes to eight to pass an amendment tabled by Cllr Frank Moran which seeks to create a turbine-free zone at least 700m wide around the monastic site founded by St Manchan.
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Agricultural impacts on the environment, reducing plastic waste, the circular economy and edible packaging are just some of the topics that will be explored under a new €10.5 million research programme by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The EPA is calling for proposals under 46 topics, as part of a new 10-year framework of research from 2021-2030.
EPA research co-funded
This research call is co-funded by a number of stakeholders, including the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), the Department of Transport (DoT), Geological Survey Ireland (GSI), and the Office of the Planning Regulator.
14 of the 46 research topics are co-funded by the DAFM, with one of these jointly funded by the DoT, and close to €4.5 million will go towards DAFM-related projects.
BY a margin of 12 to five, councillors in Offaly have voted to remove the 2km buffer zone between wind turbines and towns and villages. The zone s removal had b.