Mr Justice Richard Humphreys, who manages the court’s planning and environment list, was delivering a judgment overturning Dublin City Council’s planning approval for a 221-bed student accommodation development on lands at Church Lane, Santry, Dublin 9, after the council conceded the case. She made a fresh planning application on August 7th, 2024, without erecting a fresh site notice, the judge said. It was about two breaches of planning regulations that had the effect of disadvantaging Mr Croft and shutting him out of the process. There is, he said, “a big difference” between a breach of public participation and notification requirements that does not adversely affect a judicial review applicant and a breach that does. It is not the law that the size of a proposed transaction or a proposed development overwhelms the need for the right to public participation to have been afforded in accordance with law, he said.

Source: The Irish Times November 30, 2025 21:22 UTC