Planning objectors are now taking cases on “an industrial scale” and are threatening the common good, the head of a key team of outside experts appointed to speed up infrastructure projects has warned.
Meanwhile, planning objectors are too easily winning legal costs, said Mr O’Driscoll, the former chief executive of Glen Dimplex, who currently chairs the Economic and Social Research Institute.
He is currently leading a Government-appoited taskforce which is due to offer major recommendations next month to speed up major construction projects.
Speaking to the British-Irish Chamber of Commerce, Mr O’Driscoll declared: “I live in a democracy. I went to vote, like a lot of people, on November 27th for a government to decide what’s in the common good.”
Judges are now faced with industrial scale numbers of planning objects: “This is not serial objection. This is on an industrial scale.
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