6.5-hectare solar farm proposed at Drummany Rahan, Miltown Belturbet, Co. Cavan

In context

It is one of 5 solar farm applications Cavan County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 329 nationally. Of the 569 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 92% were granted.

What happens next

The five-week window for public submissions has closed. The council normally decides within eight weeks of the application being lodged, unless it requests further information, which stops the clock.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Cavan County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

for a living sacred celtic medicinal spiritual wellbeing community therapy garden, consisting of alterations to existing access and new extended entrance avenue; detached part 2 storey/part single storey storage shed and greenhouse; 5 outdoor viewing mounds; single storey, storytelling learning assembly cob building; 6 detached, single storey self-contained sleeping pods for short term letting, complete with planting, paths, landscaping, services, ground mounted photovoltaic panels and all associated site works. The works also include the removal of a single storey storage shed