Planning precedent report

Modifications to the existing field entrance facilitating a new farmyard and residential entrance with new access road. Extensions to existing farm buildings to include new dairy unit, cubicle house and underground slatted effluent tank. Unroofed slatted underground effluent tank for use as a cow collecting yard. Silage base and effluent tank. All ancillary drainage and site services as constructed. Permission is sought to construct a new roofed structure over the existing cow collecting yard with an extension to the existing feed passage and a new calf rearing unit. Permission also sought to extend an existing roof to cover the existing cattle handling facility

Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area and all ancillary site works and services

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1. The erection of a temporary 100m high lattice type meteorological mast for a period of 5 years which will be fixed to ground anchors by stay wires and will include instruments for measuring local climate conditions and services. 2. The proposed works also include a hardstanding area and all ancillary works

Development will consist of the erection of five wind turbines with turbine blade diameter of 117m and overall height to tip of 136.5m. one permanent meteorlogical mast, access road and internal tracks, electricity sub-station, temporary construction compound, turbine laydown area, control building, 1 borrow pit, crane hardstanding, underground cabling, up to approximately 18 hectares of forestry felling and all associated site works, with an operation lifetime of 30 years. The application is accompanied by a Planning Report, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Natura Impact Statement.

For the installation of approximately 4.6 kilometres (km) of underground cables within the Carlow County Council (CCC) boundary and approximately 2.0 km within the Laois County Council (LCC) boundary with a voltage of up to 38 kilovolts and associated works, including a new substation within LCC, for the connection of the consented Bilboa Wind Farm (Planning Register References: Carlow County Council 11/154; An Bord Pleanala PL 01.240245) to the national electricity grid; upgrading of an existing forestry track within CCC; construction of two new onsite access tracks within CCC; re-orientation and increasing in size of a crane hardstanding within CCC; and road strengthening and widening along an updated turbine delivery route, within LCC, pursuant to the consented Bilboa Wind Farm (Planning Register References; Carlow County Council 11/154; An Bord Pleanala PL 01.240245). The application is accompanied by a Planning Report, Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Natura Impact Statement.