Peter Sweetman
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Third challenge to permission for 657 apartments on Raheny lands
- High Court
- October 29, 2020, 15:19
A third legal challenge has been brought in a bid to overturn a fresh planning permission for a controversial development of 657 apartments on lands n(...)

Red tape logjam creates fear for Irish timber supply
- Energy & Resources
- July 3, 2020, 05:32
Vast swathes of trees are waiting to be felled in the Republic, but a bureaucratic tangle risks leaving them in the ground and threatening the supply (...)

Supreme Court rules ‘substitute consent’ inconsistent with EU environmental law
- Construction
- July 1, 2020, 15:25
The Supreme Court has declared “substitute consent”, a form of retention permission in Irish planning law, inconsistent with the Environmental Impact (...)

Locals fear for future of Trump’s Doonbeg golf resort after sea wall planning refusal
- Irish News
- March 18, 2020, 15:10
There are fears among locals that the Trump organisation may pull out of Doonbeg, after Donald Trump’s Co Clare golf resort lost its bid for planning (...)

Galway homeowners have spent years living under the threat of CPOs
- Irish News
- February 8, 2020, 01:57
Deirdre Goggin’s cottage on the Headfort Road in Galway is picture perfect even on a rainy day. Decades of work have gone into sculpting mature trees (...)

Kerry slug and bat habitats will be disturbed by greenway, court told
- High Court
- December 10, 2019, 15:46
A proposed cycling and pedestrian greenway will disturb the habitats for the Kerry slug and the lesser horseshoe bat, it has been claimed in a High Co(...)

Intel welcomes planning approval for €3.6bn Leixlip facility
- Irish News
- November 26, 2019, 00:52
Chip manufacturer Intel has welcomed planning approval for a new €3.6 billion manufacturing facility at its campus in Leixlip, Co. Kildare. The proje(...)

Move to change Clontarf housing site to special area of conservation
- Construction
- November 11, 2019, 20:21
An action aimed at having lands in Dublin earmarked for a major housing development designated as a special area of conservation is to be fast-tracked(...)

Environmentalist challenges construction of grid connection to wind farm
- Energy & Resources
- May 27, 2019, 16:46
A legal challenge by environmentalist Peter Sweetman over construction of the national grid connection to a wind farm in Co Wicklow is to be fast trac(...)

Intel gets green light for $4bn development at Leixlip
- Manufacturing
- May 20, 2019, 17:42
Kildare Co Council has given the green light to Intel for its planned $4 billion (€3.53 billion) manufacturing fabrication (FAB) facility in Leixlip. (...)