Planning & Environment

An estate-management company is charging residents a legal fee of €25 in order to defend any potential court cases taken against them by those same residents. Last month a resident from Castlecurragh Estate in Mulhuddart won a small claims case against Castlecurragh Property Management Company on the basis that she had paid her management fee and the company was failing to supply some of the services. She was entitled to a partial refund of her fee. The management company are now appealing the decision to the Circuit Court.

Mayo residents say they were 'hung up' on during a phone survey after expressing opposition to the Shell pipeline in Rossport. By Frank Connolly

Meath County Council has refused a planning application for a second dump near the historical Tara site in Meath. The planning application by JMP Construction Ltd of Philpotstown, Garlow Cross was for a construction- and demolition-waste recycling facility just 1,500m (4,900ft) from the Hill of Tara.

Twenty years since Bray, Co Wicklow was devastated by floods during Hurricane Charley, Bray Town Council has approved plans for a town centre on its flood plain. By Frank Connolly

An Irish consortium has threatened to sue the Government after licences to explore for oil and gas off the coast of Donegal were awarded to Statoil, Shell and other foreign companies. By Frank Connolly

Work on the Alfie Byrne Road side of the Port Tunnel has been halted due to complaints from residents that soil with hazardous waste is being placed in Fairview Park.

The Rossport Five have dismissed as "pure propaganda" a front page story in the Sunday Times on 25 July claiming that they have "split", with Brendan Philbin, one of the five, supposedly breaking away from the other four.

From building site to boulevard, the capital's main street is finally free from builders and diggers – at least for the next five years. But their are flaws in O'Connell Street's new pedestrian-friendly design, writes Colin Murphy

The Carlton site has been derelict for 27 years. In part because Dublin City Council inexplicably issued a compulsory purchase order on the site and then sought to deliver the site into the hands of a favoured developer. By Frank Connolly

Proposed rezoning of New Street in Waterford at odds with city development plan. By Emma Browne