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On Thursday the €250 million project – to construct a 12 storey hotel and two 17 and 18 storey residential blocks on the site - was approved by four votes to three, in the face of a chorus of opposition from the local council, environmental groups and residents.
Civil society groups opposed to a Planning Authority decision to build towers in Pembroke have launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance appeals against the d
Six environmental NGOs have called on the Planning Authority to explain why their representative on the board was advised to recuse herself for the hearing on t
Opposition to DB Group plans to build three towers in Pembroke appears to have been “easily shrugged off”, critics have said, with the project recommended for approval by a Planning Authority case officer.
The Planning Authority board will decide on the group’s application to build its City Centre project at a hearing to be held next week on Thursday, June 10.
The project, already approved by the PA back in 2018, was sent back to the drawing board in 2019 after a court found that one of the PA members who voted in favour of the project, Matthew Pace, had a potential financial interest in it being approved.