2.2-hectare solar farm proposed at Mungret Link Road, Caheranardrish Mungret, Co. Limerick

In context

It is one of 21 solar farm applications Limerick County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 337 nationally. Of the 573 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 Limerick County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

a new athletics facility comprising an indoor running track, gymnasium, changing rooms and associated ancillary spaces, along with an outdoor running track, astro-turf pitches with fencing, a car parking area, together with all associated site development works and services such as; appropriate lighting, floodlighting, regrading and landscaping. The proposal also includes the installation of roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels on the athletics building