Zoning

Catholic orders and dioceses in Ireland have sold more than €1 billion of land since 1999, including a €95 million Dublin seminary site, and new zoning requests suggest far more church land could soon be developed.

Kingston has no zoning category that separates single-family neighbourhoods from multifamily development, leaving residents little formal recourse against a high-rise proposed next door. A KSAMC inspector wants that fixed.

A West Bay Seventh-day Adventist congregation lost its appeal to build a $2 million temple on a residential road in Cayman after planners ruled it had not shown community need, noting a nearby Adventist church was well under capacity.

South Korea’s Supreme Court annulled a lease that let Seoul’s 90,000-member Sarang Church build a 9,380-seat chapel under a public road, a site that could cost an estimated 39 billion won to restore.

The Ashford branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God lost its base when historic Apsley House was approved for flats, then saw its bid to move into a business unit refused over the loss of employment space.

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God sold Walthamstow’s former EMD/Granada cinema to pub firm Antic after more than a decade of failed attempts to win permission to turn it into a place of worship.