Environmental and Planning
We empower investors and developers to bring major development, construction and engineering projects to market by resolving complex planning and environmental issues quickly and efficiently.
Meet the team
From initial planning through to dispute resolution, we have the right balance of strengths to get the result that protects and adds long-term value to your projects.
Finola McCarthy, who leads our Environmental and Planning group, is a member of the Irish Environmental Law Association; Procurement Lawyers Association; Irish Society of European Law and Adjudication Society. She also lectures widely at conferences and training workshops and is frequently published in construction industry publications.
Our services include advice on:
- Planning application & appeal legal issues
- Challenges to planning authority decisions by way of Judicial Review
- Advocating at Planning Oral Hearings
- Issues relating to Compulsory purchase orders (“CPOs”) including attendance at CPO Oral hearings
- Obligations pursuant to Strategic Infrastructure legislation
- S.160 planning injunctions
- Issues relating to exempted development
- S.5 referrals & related issues
- Section 47 agreements
- Defence of planning prosecutions taken by local authorities
- Planning compliance issues
- Building energy performance
- Compliance regulations
- Contaminated land issues
- Defence of prosecutions
- Defending enforcement proceedings
- Due diligence and environmental warranties
- Interpretation of EU and Irish legislation and environmental strategies
- IPC and IED licence procedures
- Licencing and permissions
- Waste packaging and distribution obligations
- Waste management
- Private infrastructure development
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