In March, a local family raised concern over the potential impact of the planned 24-acre facility on their farm in Huntstown. An Bord Pleanála was to decide this week but has now delayed its decision indefinitely.
A company owned by the former waste tycoon plans to convert the recently purchased €20 million Merrion House in Dublin 4 to temporarily accommodate international protection applicants.
Dublin City Council refused permission for the proposed six-storey hotel last month as the former waste tycoon looks to expand his accommodation offerings in the capital.
The decision comes a week after Dublin City Council refused permission for further hotel plans on Baggot Street Lower as the former waste tycoon looks to expand his accommodation offerings in the capital.
The owners of the luxury hotel want the council to outright refuse planning permission for the development, the latest snag to hit the tycoon’s plans to build out a range of hotel offerings in the capital.
Kenneth Donfield has been fighting for five years to stay in the modest bedsit apartment that has been his home for over 20 years in a building now owned by a Waters company. The case will go to the High Court.
Rathdrinagh Land, a Waters property vehicle, wants the courts to enforce an order for Kenneth Donfield to leave his flat in its Dublin 2 property. He is fighting the move as a five-year row rumbles on.
Between 2019 and 2021, the waste tycoon sold out of Beauparc in a billion-euro deal. Now, he is making his next moves via a web of investment companies operating from Merrion Square.
The Currency looks at the commercial footprint in the capital city and more lavish purchases in his native Meath since the €1.2 billion sale of his waste empire in 2021.
In the first of a three-part investigation, company, planning and legal files show how the waste tycoon is reinvesting funds from the sale of Beauparc into a string of new waste and energy ventures.
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