Cobh residents’ scrap metal challenge dismissed

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Cobh residents’ challenge to a scrap metal facility was dismissed by the High Court, as reported on 7 October 2015. The challenge opposed An Bord Pleanála’s permission for a scrap metal processing facility, waste storage and quayside storage at Cork Dockyard, Rushbrooke Commercial Park, Cobh, Co Cork. Mr Justice Seamus Noonan rejected the residents’ effort to overturn the permission granted in March 2013, saying there was nothing unreasonable or irrational about the board’s decision. The planning application had previously been refused by Cobh Town Council before being appealed to An Bord Pleanála.