Planning Permission Ireland
GrantedEnergyDecided 21 May 2021

Ballyboe, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Design amendments to an approved 12 MW solar farm in Clonmel.

21403 · Tipperary County Council · Lodged 29 March 2021

Reference
21403
Authority
Tipperary County Council
Register status
Decided
Type
PERMISSION
Received
29 March 2021

Summary

AI-generated

The application seeks to amend the design of an approved 30-year solar farm. Changes include increasing panel height to 3.2m, adjusting panel tilt angles, reducing the number of solar modules, and increasing the number of inverter substations.

Energysolarrenewable energyamendment

Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.

Official record

Development description

Amend the design of the approved development (planning ref: 19/600239) which comprises consent for the development of a temporary (30 years) solar farm with an export capacity of 12 mw comprising of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames with associated infrastructure including 4 no. Inverter housing cabins, 1 no. Control building, 1 no. Customer cabin (substation), 1 no. Dno substation, temporary construction compound, ducting and electrical cabling, perimeter agricultural fencing, mounted cctv cameras and internal access tracks subject to 16 conditions. Amendments proposed are: - - although the height of the solar panels is increased from 2.7m to a maximum 3.2m, the glint and glare impacts will reduce due to advancements in the assessment and software used. The panel tilt angle will change from between 15 and 25 degrees to 15 and 30 degrees; - the number of solar modules will reduce from 39,168 to 30,060 and the number of pile driven poles installed will increase from 2,548 to 4,258; - although there will be an increase in the number of inverter substations from 4 to 6, these have a lower noise output and will therefore result in lower noise impacts; - an increase in cctv cameras along the perimeter fence from 8 to 12; - although the road will remain at a width of 3.5m, the point where it connects from the southern to northern lands is moved to use the existing access; - an almost identical footprint which will increase by 0.03% to 4.08%; and – increase the output from 12mw to 16mw

Key dates

Timeline

  1. Application received29 March 2021
  2. Decision due23 May 2021
  3. Decision issued21 May 2021
  4. Grant issued24 June 2021
  5. Permission expiry29 October 2029

In the area

Applications near this site

Other planning applications within about 500 m — what else is being proposed or built nearby.

Related developments

Similar applications

Ranked by what these developments actually propose, not by matching words — so you can see how comparable applications were decided.

Community

Discussion

What local people think about this application.

Nobody watching yet

Community sentiment

No votes yet

Nobody has voted on this application yet.

Community sentiment — a straw poll of people who visited this page, not a statutory submission. To make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.

Sign in to have your say on this application.

No comments yet. Be the first to say what you think about this application.

Sign in to join the discussion on this application.

Comments are moderated and are the opinions of the people who wrote them. They form no part of the statutory planning process — to make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.