The four buildings were owned by David O’Connor and Bryan O’Connor when they were placed on the derelict sites register in December 2015

'In terms of building our family home, it’s all just been pushed further and further down the road, and we still have no idea when we’ll know'

Paul Hyde last month received two jail sentences of two months each for breaches of planning laws

It also emerged today that ABP is currently running an annual deficit in its finances of €5m, up from €4m in 2021, and has been for some time

Council turned down plans for 12,893sq m development in West Dublin area of Clondalkin

Real reform is long overdue — including a covenant that those who work for regulatory bodies cannot then move into roles within the industries they have been scrutinising

Paul Hyde has lodged an appeal and the matter is now likely to go to the circuit court

Paul Hyde has pleaded guilty to two breaches of planning laws, in what the court heard was a “very serious” case. 

Paul Hyde will learn on Friday whether he will receive a conviction after pleading guilty to two breaches of planning laws

The exit of the board’s planning director means that whoever is appointed chairperson of An Bord Pleanála will now have a clean slate with which to work, writes Mick Clifford

Rachel Kenny, one of the figures at the centre of a major controversy in An Bord Pleanála last year, is leaving her post as director of planning

In an email to staff, Dave Walsh said that he hoped that two other public bodies with access to the report would carry out a similarly “thorough” investigation

ABP’s interim chair Oonagh Buckley said that some €5m of that spend had resulted from ‘other side’ costs primarily relating to cases lost or conceded by the board

Objections centred on quality of life and environmental impact, as well as issues like odours, traffic volumes, depreciation of property values, animal welfare and water pollution

An Bord Pleanála refused permission to plans for 363 build-to-rent apartments, 61 student apartments totalling 189 student bed spaces and 18 ‘executive’ houses at Canal Bank, Pa Healy Rd

Under the draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 recently launched by the Department of Housing, An Bord Pleanála would be rebranded as a commission named An Coimisiún Pleanála

An inspector’s report reference to the site as being a “serviced inner suburban area in the city”, whereas the widow said the nearest city to the site is Galway

Malcolm Byrne said The Ditch had 'missed the point' of his complaint

Newly-established body inherited a backlog of just under 120,000 stalled applications and so far this year a further backlog of 2,398 applications has formed

The newly-published terms of reference say senior counsel Lorna Lynch should consider six aspects of roughly 300 case files to determine whether anything meriting disciplinary action took place

It was reported that Ms Buckley told the Irish Planning Institute conference that Mr Logue’s firm was responsible for half of judicial reviews against the board and that this was lucrative business

Interim chair Oonagh Buckley told the Public Accounts Committee that senior counsel Lorna Lynch may suggest on foot of her inquiry 'that further steps are taken, either disciplinary steps or referral to the minister in the case of a serving board member'

Interim head Oonagh Buckley told the Irish Planning Institute that the organisation 'could not be allowed to go under'

“The Telecommunications Guidelines state that only as a last resort should masts be located within or in the immediate surrounds of smaller towns or villages, or in a residential area or beside schools,” inspector, Caryn Coogan, said

Former deputy chairman appeared before Skibbereen District Court regarding nine summonses, one for each year from 2014 to 2022

The case centres around the demolition of a pub which Mr Hyde approved for the purpose of constructing a 210-bed shared living development

Three such mast cases were heard on Monday as part of the High Court’s strategic infrastructure list before Justice Richard Humphreys

While An Bord Pleanala’s decision on the mobile communications mast has not been made yet, its recent history with this type of application is a problematic one

An Bord Pleanála has previously apologised for the delays and has said it is not meeting its statutory deadlines in a large number of cases

Ordinarily, planning applications should be decided upon within 18 weeks, but now An Bord Pleanála had 2,676 planning applications outstanding

Two groups say the measures in the proposed Planning and Development Bill 'appear to be more driven by lobbyist influence and popular narrative than by evidence'

Development of 38 apartments in Caherdavin green-lit by planning board inspector less than two weeks before new council development plan came into force, limiting scale of development on site

Provisions in the bill which propose to make it more difficult to pursue judicial review of public authorities, if enacted, will mean those awaiting homes and critical infrastructure will suffer and it will have profound impacts on local environmental groups

The Oireachtas Housing Committee also heard that Ireland is approaching an “epidemic” in terms of vacancy and dereliction of buildings

The Office of the Planning Regulator and An Bord Pleanála will both warn against the introduction of fines in instances where planning decisions are made after deadlines

Oireachtas committee hears that planning authorities — including  An Bord Pleanála / An Coimisiún Pleanála will be penalised for deviating from mandatory timelines

Planning application lodged last August for development on 12.6 hectare area in East Cork

An investigation may have found that director of planning Rachel Kenny was negatively impacted by media reports, but no demand for a retraction was made, writes Mick Clifford

Investigation examined four cases in which it was alleged Rachel Kenny had a conflict of interest that could have impinged on the board’s independence

An external report into the actions of the former executive director of the Irish Planning Institute highlighted a number of still unanswered concerns, writes Mick Clifford

An Bord Pleanála's permission last summer went against a recommendation for refusal by its own senior planning inspector

Planning board said scale of development would 'detract from the vitality and viability' of Mallow town centre

Objection lodged against compulsory purchase order of 15 acres to develop education campus to provide permanent homes for Gaelscoil an Caisleáin and the Le Chéile secondary school in the town

While the housing minister is introducing some measures to reform An Bord Pleanála, the problems go far beyond issues of management fuzziness, writes Mick Clifford