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Thomas Reid, may be messing with Intel now but he had to go to the Supreme Court to stop them from taking his land.
A farmer delayed planning permission for the expansion of the Intel plant in Kildare for more than three years based on “unbuttoned complaints about a wide variety of actors” including “killer robots” and US military intelligence, a High Court judge has said.
Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said Thomas Reid, who owns 74 acres (29.9 hectares) next to the Intel computer chip manufacturing plant in Leixlip in Co Kildare, had put in an original appeal to the expansion of the facility that made a mockery of the procedures for evaluating planning and led to a delay in final permission for the plan between July 2020 and now.
The judge made the comments when he dismissed Mr Reid’s latest objection to a 2020 application from Intel to modify previous 2017 and 2019 planning permissions for alterations and reconfigurations which would result in increasing the overall height of buildings at the plant from three to six metres along with other alterations.
Mr Reid had previously objected to planning applications that went through the courts, which were also dismissed. He did win a landmark Supreme Court case in 2015 which prevented the use of compulsory purchase orders to acquire his farm for Intel expansion.
His appeal to An Bord Pleanála over the latest 2020 application was, Mr Justice Humphreys said, “an idiosyncratic document consisting of six handwritten pages in block capitals together with some attachments”.
The judge said much of this material deals with matters not obviously relevant to planning law including a printout of a news article entitled “Amazon, Microsoft and Intel may be putting world at risk through killer robot developments, study [says]” and of another article about data centres consuming huge amounts of electricity.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business...d-intel-plant-expansion-for-over-three-years/
A farmer delayed planning permission for the expansion of the Intel plant in Kildare for more than three years based on “unbuttoned complaints about a wide variety of actors” including “killer robots” and US military intelligence, a High Court judge has said.
Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said Thomas Reid, who owns 74 acres (29.9 hectares) next to the Intel computer chip manufacturing plant in Leixlip in Co Kildare, had put in an original appeal to the expansion of the facility that made a mockery of the procedures for evaluating planning and led to a delay in final permission for the plan between July 2020 and now.
The judge made the comments when he dismissed Mr Reid’s latest objection to a 2020 application from Intel to modify previous 2017 and 2019 planning permissions for alterations and reconfigurations which would result in increasing the overall height of buildings at the plant from three to six metres along with other alterations.
Mr Reid had previously objected to planning applications that went through the courts, which were also dismissed. He did win a landmark Supreme Court case in 2015 which prevented the use of compulsory purchase orders to acquire his farm for Intel expansion.
His appeal to An Bord Pleanála over the latest 2020 application was, Mr Justice Humphreys said, “an idiosyncratic document consisting of six handwritten pages in block capitals together with some attachments”.
The judge said much of this material deals with matters not obviously relevant to planning law including a printout of a news article entitled “Amazon, Microsoft and Intel may be putting world at risk through killer robot developments, study [says]” and of another article about data centres consuming huge amounts of electricity.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business...d-intel-plant-expansion-for-over-three-years/