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A High Court judge has described as "very difficult to understand" Galway County Council's grant of planning permission for "a substantial housing estate outside Kinvara village on a blind corner, on a main road to Ballyvaughan and the Burren area".

A city councillor and a number of residents’ associations strongly opposed to a proposed development at Millar’s Lane have hit out at the unfairness of a section of the Planning and Development Act 2000 which allows An Bord Pleanala to “favour developers” and guide them to getting approval.

James Stephen’s GAA club has been informed that An Bord Pleanála has granted permission for the development of the Kells Rd site as a site for the proposed new GAA club with revised conditions.

Mayo Fine Gael TD, John O’Mahony, is calling on Mayo County Council to contact all planning applicants whose planning permission is due to expire within the next six months. Deputy O’Mahony said he believed the authority should do this as a once off gesture to people who may not be aware that for a cost of €62 applicants may get an extension to their planning permission for up to five years.

The Galway Mayo Institute of Technology has lodged a planning permission application with Galway City Council for the construction for a new engineering school.

The Galway County Council is to take part in a major initiative a review of how planning laws and policy are being implemented.

An An Bord Pleanala inspector had recommended that Aldi discount food store be granted planning permission for its first store in County Kilkenny, however, this decision was since overturned by the board of An Bord Pleanala.

Figures released this week from the Central Statistics Office reveal that the total number of planning permissions granted in Mayo in the last quarter of 2009 fell by 81 — falling from 290 granted (during the same period in 2008) to 209.

Labour councillor Harry Barrett has welcomed draft legislation aimed at preventing head shops opening across the State without planning permission.

Serious traffic management issues need to be addressed on the Newport Road, Westport and residential areas surrounding a proposed discount store, according to town councillors who flagged the potential problem during their monthly meeting held last week.