Business Post's View Judicial review process in clear need of a complete overhaul The current expensive and sluggish planning laws allow critical infrastructure and housing developments to be held up for years
Planning Planning system set for radical overhaul under new legislationConsolidated Planning Bill aims to speed up An Bord Pleanála process and reduce the number of judicial review challenges
Planning Housing Minister warned of risk in replacing Bord Pleanála membersIrish Planning Institute raises concern over future technical and environmental expertise at troubled organisation
Morning Headlines Warning over appointing new Bord Pleanála members; Indeed Ireland’s billion-euro yearThe stories you need to read this morning from the worlds of business, politics and current affairs
Pharma Eli Lilly’s investment in new biopharma plant will be at least €1.2 billionAmount that US pharma giant is investing in Limerick facility is much more than originally thought, as scale and fit-out of campus emerges
Planning An Bord Pleanála chairman Dave Walsh resigns on ‘personal grounds’It comes following months of controversy at the planning body
Politics New law to cut delays and red tape on planning applicationsSweeping reforms expected in upcoming bill include shorter deadlines for An Bord Pleanála decisions and changes to judicial review rules
Planning Planning permission for Galway Ring Road to be quashed on climate grounds Decision is the latest delay to the €600 million project after An Bord Pleanála failed to take account of the state’s new climate action plan
Planning An Bord Pleanála delays outsourcing plans after union warning of ‘discord’Fórsa criticised the planning board for attempting to hire external advisers to provide advice to its audit and risk committee
Planning Irish Planning Institute calls on Housing Minister to urgently resource An Bord Pleanála Letter follows months of controversy at body amid number of ongoing probes
Planning Fórsa criticises Bord Pleanála plans to outsource governance servicesTrade union claims move to hire external advisors at embattled planning body would create ‘serious personal discord’ and ‘alienate’ staff from board
Planning Scotland’s former legal director to head up planning regulator’s review into Bord Pleanála Office of the Planning Regulator to examine procedures around governance, identification, conflicts of interest, and allocation of cases
Planning Start date for watchdog’s ‘focused review’ into planning board yet to be confirmedPlans for regulator investigation announced in June, after a series of alleged irregularities claims, are ‘currently being finalised’
Planning Report into alleged conflicts of interest at An Bord Pleanála referred to DPP and GardaíSenior Counsel Remy Farrell conducted review after allegations that the board’s former deputy chair, Paul Hyde, failed to declare conflicts of interest during the course of his work on planning decisions
Planning ABP gives green light for 262-unit complex in Saggart despite Defence Department’s objection Concerns had been raised that new residential plan could negatively impact the nearby Casement Aerodrome
Planning Developer at odds with Dublin City Council over planned aparthotel in capitalRed Rock Developments has appealed to An Bord Pleanála over an order to shrink a proposed aparthotel on Foley Street in Dublin, arguing the move would make the development commercially unviable
Planning Report into Bord Pleanála planning practices sent to Minister Darragh O’Brien appointed Remy Farrell, senior counsel, to conduct investigation into alleged conflicts of interest at the planning body
Business Post's View State must solve planning issues to ease the way for renewable energyAs we face into a winter of energy crisis and gas rationing, politicians can no longer put Ireland’s creaking energy system on the back burner
Housing Belgian tax evader is given green light to build Irish homesBelgian millionaire’s firm received planning approval for 384 houses and apartments in Limerick in spite of his conviction for large scale tax evasion
Housing Best-laid plans: How developers are letting sleeping sites lieAround the country, an estimated 50,000-80,000 planned homes have failed to materialise in spite of being approved
