'Serial objectors' face fee hike for planning challenges

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / January 19

A Register of 'serial objectors' to one-off rural housing is likely to be set up in Kerry. This follows a unanimous decision by council members to ask Environment Minister Dick Roche for a 10-fold increase in the cost of fees for anyone objecting to a development outside of their local electoral area. The same small number of names consistently turns up on planning files objecting to developments and making observations on one-off rural housing, councillors claim.

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