A local residents’ group has secured permission from the High Court to bring proceedings aimed at overturning planning permission for a €15 million visitor centre at Dublin’s Hell Fire club. The action by Hellfire Massy Residents Association (HMRA) concerns An Bord Pleanála’s grant of permission to South Dublin County Council to develop a visitor centre in the Dublin mountains at the Massy’s Wood estate and Montpelier Hill. The site includes the Hell Fire club, a protected structure and national monument built around 1725. The project is being developed in co-operation with Coillte and the Dublin Mountains Partnership. At the High Court on Thursday Mr Justice Richard Humphreys, the judge who manages the court’s strategic infrastructure development and commercial planning list, granted the group permission to bring the challenge.

Source: The Irish Times November 26, 2020 12:56 UTC