*An artist’s impression of the Plaza. PAT MCDONAGH’S plans for a €10m Barack Obama style Supermac’s motorway plaza outside Ennis off the M18 motorway linking Galway to Limerick are being stalled by a High Court challenge.
*An artist’s impression of the housing development. A HIGH COURT CHALLENGE against the largest private housing scheme in Ennis is to be made.
*Bishop Fintan Monahan & St Flannan’s College principal, Fr Ignatius McCormack. Photograph: John O’Neill A ‘HOLY ROW’ over contentious plans for a new €25m community hospital on diocesan owned green space at St Flannan’s College in Ennis has taken a fresh twist.
*An artist’s impression of houses at Ballymacaula. AN BORD Pleanála has given the green light for the single largest ever private housing scheme proposed for Ennis.
*Niall Williams. Photograph: John Kelly THE IMPACT on the protected bird, the Hen Harrier, has helped put pay to plans for a contentious 10 turbine wind farm for West Clare.
*Donal Ó hÁiniféin with plans for the expansion outside Gaelscoil Mhíchíl Cíosóg. Photograph: Natasha Barton AN ENNIS PRIMARY SCHOOL principal has said the planning system has been misused.
*An artist’s sketch of the Supermac’s Plaza in Clare. A SUPERMAC’S PLAZA on the outskirts of Ennis has been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála.
*An Bord Pleanála have come under the spotlight in recent months. CONFIDENCE HAS BEEN lost in An Bord Pleanála, Clare councillors have stated while calling for it to be replaced by “a competent authority”.
*Equnior and Shell have exited the Irish market. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL have been urged to deliver added income in development levies from renewable energy companies.
ALDI have expressed ‘extreme disappointment’ with the decision of An Bord Pleanála to refuse them planning permission for a second time to construct a new store in Shannon.
