Kildare County Council grants permission for solar farm at Killadoon, Celbridge, Co. Kildare

In context

It is one of 19 solar farm applications Kildare County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 349 nationally. Of the 572 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 92% were granted.

What happens next

The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 7 November 2023. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

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

The development will consist of revisions to a permitted 38kV electrical substation and compound previously permitted as part of a solar farm permission by An Bord Pleanála under Ref. ABP-303636-19 (Kildare County Council Planning Ref. 18/250). The proposed revisions comprise design alterations to the substation building comprising a modest increase in size and addition of pitched roof; enlargement of compound area with associated revisions to electrical plant and apparatus, security fencing, underground cabling, wastewater holding tank and associated ancillary works.