EIRGRID EXEMPT FROM DEVELOPMENT FEES FOR INTERCONNECTOR PROJECT, COUNTY COUNCIL TOLD
12 January 2017
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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 …
