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THE TOWNLANDS OF DOVEHILL GORTAMUCK CURRAGHMORE (EGLISH BY) AND, FREAGH, CO. OFFALY

A 181.02-hectare solar farm development across three land parcels with underground cabling along a public road.

22586 · Offaly County Council · Lodged 11 November 2022

Reference: 22586
Authority: Offaly County Council
Register status: Invalid or incomplete
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 11 November 2022

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This application seeks a 10-year permission for a solar farm spanning approximately 181.02 hectares across three parcels. The development includes over 1 million square meters of solar panels, inverter stations, control buildings, and 3.8km of underground cabling within the public road corridor.

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A 10-year permission and 40 year operation for a solar farm on 3 no. Land parcels as described herein: west parcel (dovehill townland) c. 119.25 hectares, central parcel (gortamuck & curraghmore (eglish by) townlands) c. 42.2 hectares and east parcel (gortamuck & freagh townlands) c. 16.07 hectares; a route corridor of 3.5 hectares for an underground internal electrical cable connecting the west and central parcels to the east parcel consisting of c. 3,859m underground cabling within the corridor of the l6042 'rath road' public road. The total site area for the proposed development is c. 181.02 hectares and consists of the following;1,070,756 sq. Metres of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; inverter / transformer stations; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; 2 no. Medium voltage (mv) control buildings; new internal access tracks associated drainage infrastructure; site entrances to the l6042 'rath road' public road; 54 no. Cctv/ lighting posts and all associated site services and works. Installations of internal network cable comprise trenching for an underground medium voltage electrical cable and associated joint bays and infrastructure, for a distance of approximately 3,859 metres in length along the l6042 'rath road' public road and approximately 661.5 metres within the solar farm lands. The proposed solar farm will be broken into 2 no. Separate phases. 'phase 1' will consist of the development of the solar pv arrays located in the east parcel (c. 16.07 ha), central parcel (c. 42.2 ha) and the west parcel (c. 52.67 ha). 'phase 2' of the solar farm will consist of the development of the remainder of the solar pv arrays in the west parcel covering a site area ofc. 66.58 ha. As part of a separate strategic infrastructure development (sid) planning application, provision of a 1 10kv electrical substation with electrical control building, associated compound with palisade fence and 2 no. Overhead line masts, which is to be located in the east parcel, will be lodged with an bord pleanála in due course

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Application received11 November 2022

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