High Court judge warns costs system ‘should not be viewed as a complete gravy train’
A High Court judge has warned that the costs system “should not be viewed as a complete gravy train” and that the system is already seriously imbalanced against private sector developers.
Mr Justice Richard Humphreys – who presides over the Planning and Environment Division of the High Court – made his comments in a costs judgement concerning a case where he has already ruled that an An Bord Pleanála report error about a Leisler bat located in a barn outside Ennis is not sufficient to halt contentious plans for a new 200MW €1.2 billion data centre campus.
In April 2024, An Bord Pleanála granted planning permission for Art Data Centres Ltd comprising six data halls covering 145 acres of lands adjacent to the Tulla Rd on the eastern outskirts of Ennis near Junction 13 on the M18 motorway connecting Galway to Limerick.
However, opponents of the data centre, Colin Doyle, Friends of the Irish Environment CLG, Futureproof Clare, Martin Knox and Christine Sharp sought a High Court…
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