Developer In High Court Over Clearing Newtown Trees

Season Park

ewtown cycling journalist Shane Stokes has been keeping a keen eye on his neighbouring property along Season Park Road.

And he noticed last year that a whole chunk of trees were being cleared off a two-acre site, a move that just might have been unlawful.

Which is why the lad was in the High Court this week, alleging that Dwyer Nolan Development Ltd’s removal of said trees in February 2025 was an unauthorised development.

For their part, Dwyer Nolan are claiming that the clearing of the two acres was permitted as an exempted development under the Planning And Development Act 2000. And they’re also denying that the trees were cleared because they were getting in the way of obtaining planning permission for a housing development.

Stokes has form here, having taken Dwyer Nolan to the High Court and getting a previous planning permission for said housing development overturned, a matter that’s currently with An Coimisiún Pleanála.

Season Park House FEB25

In the High Court this week, Stokes dismissed as “not credible” the developer’s claim the trees had been removed to return the land to agricultural use because they had “given up” on obtaining planning permission.

For their part, Dwyer Nolan’s defence barrister Niall Handy argued that Stokes was merely seeking to exercise control over land that was not in his ownership, and was seeking to interfere with the development of the land.

Both sides will meet again to continue the case.

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