Ireland

Dublin City Council has this week approved three major projects – all of which have proved contentious.

Irish data centre company EngineNode has unveiled proposals for a huge data storage campus near Bracetown, County Meath.

There has been a surge in proposals for major housing projects that are taking advantage of the republic’s fast-track planning regime.

Ireland’s leading environmental coalition has cried foul over proposed planning legislation, claiming that it will make it far more difficult to challenge decisions in the courts and hold public authorities and the government to account.