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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.

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


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Happens way too often. Old growth woodland cleared without concern about the impact. We’re being told time and again that our wildlife is being pushed to oblivion because of habitat loss. But everywhere I look. It’s business as usual.