Withdrawal of appeal with planning board sought
The Four Courts. Developer Greg Kavanagh has claimed in High Court proceedings that a planning appeal brought over his company’s plans for 98 homes in Ashford, Co Wicklow, has been done to extract a payment of €6 million from the development company.
Beakonford claims Ms Wilding has been acting on her behalf and/or on the agent or “alter ego” for Ms Stokes in lodging the planning objection. Beakonford also seeks, among other things, a declaration that the planning appeal was lodged “for the sole purpose of seeking to extort money” from the company on behalf of Ms Stokes and Ms Wilding.
The planning objection is preventing the company for either developing or selling the land. It is currently fielding offers of €9.1 million and €10 million for sale of part of the development lands, he said. However, Mr Kavanagh said, this was at complete odds with a proposal made by Ms Stokes’s agent in August 2022 when it was stated that Ms Stokes was to sell certain lands to maximise density and, in return, she would receive a lump sum upfront and then “a payout per unit” when they had been sold.
He said his agent later put in writing to Ms Stokes’s agent the terms of what had been proposed at that meeting including payments of between €6,000 and €20,000 per house on the close of each sale with a cap on total payments of €6 million.
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