The High Court has quashed planning permission for a proposed €160m incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Cork harbour and has remitted the application back to An Bord Pleanala for further consideration and determination.
The planning application for the proposed incinerator by Indaver will now be examined afresh from a certain point in 2017
Last March Mr Justice David Barniville upheld a local environmental group’s challenge to the permission granted by the board in 2018 to Indaver Ireland for the incinerator at Ringaskiddy, but he had deferred a ruling on what precise orders to make arising from the judgment.
In June he deferred his ruling on the matter until today on whether to permit An Bord Pleanála to reconsider its permission decision for the incinerator or to simply quash its permission for the development, meaning the entire planning process has to restart.
Linda Fitzpatrick of Environmental group CHASE who have been campaigning against the proposal since 2001 told RedFM News that the planning application has been quashed and the application has been put back in time:
"Planning permission has been quashed yes, but the application itself is to be turned back in time to 2nd October 2017. So we'll be watching very closely what the board do know and we are absolutely urging them to make a sound legal decision on this, so that we don't end up in court again."
