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Tipperary County Council grants permission for 6.3-hectare solar farm at Knockanpierce, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
19 June 2024 · Permission.ie Planning Wire · from the Tipperary County Council planning register · published 1 September 2026
Tipperary County Council granted permission on 19 June 2024 for a 6.3-hectare solar farm at Knockanpierce, Nenagh, an application first lodged on 16 January 2024.
Key facts
- Reference
- 245
- Planning authority
- Tipperary County Council
- Location
- Knockanpierce, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
- Received
- 16 January 2024
- Application type
- PERMISSION
- Site area
- 6.3 hectares
- Status
- APPLICATION FINALISED
- Decision
- CONDITIONAL
- Decision date
- 19 June 2024
In context
It is one of 20 solar farm applications Tipperary 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 applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 19 June 2024. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.
The development description, as lodged
Verbatim from the Tipperary County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.
a solar PV panel array consisting of up to 10,000 no. solar PV panels (c.27,010m2) on ground mounted steel frames on a c.6.33 hectare site, external transformer, power inverter units, underground cable ducts, perimeter security fence, CCTV masts, solar lighting and all associated works
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Source: Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, "Tipperary County Council grants permission for 6.3-hectare solar farm at Knockanpierce, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary", 19 June 2024. https://www.permission.ie/news/tipperary-county-council/245
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.permission.ie/news/tipperary-county-council/245">Tipperary County Council grants permission for 6.3-hectare solar farm at Knockanpierce, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary</a>, Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, 19 June 2024.</p>
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