{"id":371040,"date":"2026-03-29T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:50:09","slug":"foxrock-couples-legal-challenge-to-housing-development-is-trivial-planning-authority-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371040\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxrock couple\u2019s legal challenge to housing development is \u2018trivial\u2019, planning authority says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Tom and Victoria Maughan cited potential impact on wild birds and heritage in their opposition to 10 houses and 38 apartments\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria and Tom Maughan objected to the building of 10 houses and 38 apartments\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SN Maughans.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Victoria and Tom Maughan objected to the building of 10 houses and 38 apartments<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A bid by a Foxrock couple to have a housing development next to their home quashed by the High Court was \u201cmisconceived\u201d and \u201ctrivial\u201d, An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la has told the High Court in a new filing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tom Maughan, a senior executive with the Irish arm of US investment giant Bain Capital, a major developer of south Dublin apartments, and his wife Victoria, a Pilates teacher, raised concerns about the impact of a proposed new housing development on wild birds and heritage next to their home in the south Dublin suburb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom and Victoria Maughan cited potential impact on wild birds and heritage in their opposition to 10 houses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6353,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-371040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}