2660053
CONDITIONALClare - Clare County Council
Proposed Development
to construct an Agricultural Shed and associated site works
View the full application file on the council's planning portal →Application Timeline
Application received
5 Feb 2026
Decision due
1 Apr 2026
Decision: CONDITIONAL
1 Apr 2026
Grant issued
5 May 2026
Application Details
- Location
- Springmount , Kilmore , Co. Clare
- Applicant
- N/A
- Application Type
- PERMISSION
- Planning Authority
- Clare County Council
- Site Area
- 0.28 ha
Timeline
- Registration Date
- 5 February 2026
- Status
- APPLICATION FINALISED
- Decision
- CONDITIONAL
- Decision Date
- 1 April 2026
- Grant Date
- 5 May 2026
- Permission Expires
- 4 May 2031
Location
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to erect a dwelling house, garage, entrance and install an effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Springmount , Kilmore , Co. Clare
to erect a dwelling house, driveway and garage, install a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Springmount , Kilmore , Co. Clare
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Springmount , Kilmore , County Clare
to fill the existing poor quality agricultural land with stone and soil in order to raise the level of the ground, utilising existing site entrance, including all ancillary site works
Ballyquin More Td , O'Briensbridge , Co Clare
the development will consist of construction of one new single storey dwelling house with wastewater treatment system, bored well, garage, entrance from public road and all associated works
Leitrim , O'Briensbridge , Co Clare
for development at the existing Ballyquin Quarry. The development will consist of: (i) The extraction of sand from an area of approximately 16.3 hectares within an overall site area of 97.5 hectares; (ii) The infill and restoration of existing and future quarry voids (38 hectares) using inert soil and stone waste (imported inert greenfield and non-greenfield soils and stone, and river dredge spoil) which will be a soil recovery facility and require a waste management licence or soil and stone by-product (i.e. essentially virgin soil or equivalent to virgin soil and stone, and river dredge spoil) which will be notified to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an Article 27 by-product; (iii) The upgrade of existing quarry infrastructure including site office, weigh bridge, wheelwash, and welfare facilities; (iv) Refuelling area and associated drainage works, comprising 1 No. concrete hardstand area, hydrocarbon interceptor, wetland, inspection chamber and soakaway; (v) 1 No. soil inspection shed (c.875q. m) for the inspection of soil material; (vi) Erection of washplant; (vii) Settlement ponds; (viii) Landscape berms and fencing; (ix) All associated ancillary works. Site access is via the existing entrance off the R466. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development. Should the inert soil, stone and inert dredge spoil materials be deemed to be a waste, then a Waste Management Licence will be required under Part 5 of the Waste Management Act 1996 (as amended) and an application for a Waste Management Licence will be made to the EPA following a grant of planning permission for the proposed development.
Ballyquin More and Woodpark , Ballyquin , Co. Clare
for development which will consist of the importation of inert excavation spoil comprising natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone for the purpose of restoration of a previously extracted area ( 1.08ha) within Ballyquin Pit. The application is accompanied by Environmental Impact Statement ( Environmental Impact Assessment Report)
Ballyquin Pit , O'Briensbridge , Co. Clare
the proposed development, on an overall site of 3.58 hectares, will consist of: A co-located Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Compound with associated internal access tracks; Access to the proposed BESS compound will be from the R466 local road and will consist of the use of an existing quarry entrance in the townland of Leitrim which will be upgraded as permitted as part of the Fahy Beg Wind Farm (under Clare County Council Ref: 23148 & ACP Ref 317227); Installation of grid code compliance equipment to facilitate an under-the-fence connection to the adjacent Fahy Beg 38kV substation. The grid code compliance equipment will include: Backup Generator, Neutral Earthing Resistor (NER), Auxiliary House Transformer, Marshalling Kiosks; 3 no. spare parts shipping containers (measuring 12.2 m (L) x 2.4 m (W) x 2.6 m (H)); and Associated ancillary development. Installation of 32 no. Battery Energy Storage Units comprising metal shipping containers housing batteries (measuring 6 m (L) x 2.4 m (W) and 2.9 m (H) each), and associated ancillary control and ventilation units; Installation of 8 no. Medium Voltage (MV) Inverter Stations comprising metal shipping containers housing the inverter, MV transformer, and an MV-LV room (measuring 6 m (L) x 2.4 m (W) and 2.9 m (H) each); Installation of 1 no. water storage tank (measuring 5.15 m (L) x 4.15 m(W) x 2.58 m (H)); Construction of 250m of new access tracks; Provision of a crane hardstanding area to facilitate lifting operations on site (280m2); Provision of 10 no. car parking spaces (8 no. standard parking spaces, and 2 no. accessible parking spaces); Reprofiling of the existing cut slope embankment with the erection of a gabion basket retaining wall measuring 75m in length and 2.5m in height, and construction of a reinforced fill slope embankment; Underground electrical and communications cabling; Security lighting, CCTV and communications mast; Provision of 150m of Sound reflective barriers; Security fencing and gates; Drainage system including on-site surface water attenuation ponds; Tree felling of 0.19 Ha (1,890m2) to facilitate required clearance for BESS compound, associated earthworks and drainage infrastructure; Removal of 109m of hedgerow to facilitate development of the BESS compound, and replanting of 109m at perimeter locations; and All associated ancillary site development and vegetation clearance works including landscaping and hedgerow reinstatement. The Applicant requests that the development be
Within the townlands of Woodpark TD and Leitrim TD , near Bridgetown , Co. Clare
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