EIRGRID EXEMPT FROM DEVELOPMENT FEES FOR INTERCONNECTOR PROJECT, COUNTY COUNCIL TOLD
EirGrid will not have to pay development contributions to Monaghan Co Council for the erection of pylons in the county as part of its construction of the North-South electricity interconnector project, it emerged on Monday.
A special meeting of the Council – convened to discuss the decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission to EirGrid for the interconnector – was told by senior planning official Adrian Hughes that the Development Contributions Scheme operated by the local authority …