Planning Permission Ireland
GrantedEnergyDecided 24 May 2022

Land South of the L1015 Road at Confey, Leixlip, Co. Kildare

Amendments to an approved solar farm design, including substation changes and extending the project lifetime.

226 · Kildare County Council · Lodged 10 January 2022

Reference
226
Authority
Kildare County Council
Register status
Decided
Type
PERMISSION
Received
10 January 2022

Summary

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Permission is sought to amend the design of an approved solar PV energy development. Changes include relocating and resizing the substation, adjusting solar panel heights and angles, reducing the output from 10MW to 8.2MW, extending the project lifetime to 35 years, and extending the construction duration to 10 years.

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Development description

To amend the design of the approved development (planning reference 16/848) which comprises consent for a solar pv energy development. Proposed amendments include: (1) substation to increase in size and relocate; (2) customer substation to be removed, (3) storage container to relocate, (4) transformer containers to relocate, increase in size and reduce in numbers, (5) change in height and layout of deer fencing, (6) reduction in height and number of cctv cameras, (7) slight alteration to the access tracks, (8) change in height and angle of solar panels, (9) mw output to be reduced from 10mw to 8.2mw, and (10) project lifetime proposed to be extended from 30 to 35 years. Revised by significant further information which consists of the duration allowed for the works permitted under planning application reference 16/848 is sought to be increased to 10 years from the date of the final grant of permission (9th march 2017); and condition 18 is sought to be amended to allow construction of both confey solar farm (16/848) and towerhill solar farm (16/777 to occur at the same time

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AgricultureRU
“To retain and protect agricultural uses.”

National zoning type: Agriculture

Objective set by the Leixlip LAP 2020-2023 (2020–2026). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

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Key dates

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  1. Application received10 January 2022
  2. Further information requested2 March 2022
  3. Further information received19 April 2022
  4. Decision due25 May 2022
  5. Decision issued24 May 2022
  6. Grant issued1 July 2022
  7. Permission expiry30 June 2027

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