Site planning risk brief

Of planning reference 211790, to construct milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/drafting yard, meal bin, office, slatted tank, water tank, storage rooms, office and plant room, cubicle shed with slatted tanks and loose area, hardcore area, (IV) silage slab and all assorted site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 2218 sqm

To construct (I) milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/drafting yard, meal bin, office, slatted tank, water tank, storage rooms, office and plant room, (II) cubicle shed with slatted tanks and loose area, (III) hardcore area, (IV) silage slab and all assorted site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 2218 sqm

For the following: (a) Construction of cubicle shed (b) Construction and Modifications to existing livestock buildings to include the addition of cubicles, feed area and slatted flow channel. (c) Construction of a milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, livestock waiting yard, handling facilities and underground slatted flow channel. (d) Construction of a machinery shed. (e) Construction of geomembrane lined slurry lagoon (f)Construction of 2 no. silage pits and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 2220 sqm (F-H & 12)

For 2 storey extension to front, side and rear of existing house, comprising of kitchen/lounge facility with additional 3 no. bedrooms on first floor, permission also south to upgrade septic tank to treatment system with new percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 92sqm

For several minor amendments to the previously consented development under Planning Reference 2361049. The amendments comprise the following; re alignment of the main entrance and access gate; re alignment and widening of internal access tracks; alteration of the boundary fence; removal of the consented 38kV substation in Field 22; combined central inverters and MV transformers are replaced by separate string inverters and central MV transformers; reduction in the size of related hardstanding areas; updated table layout including a reduction in PV table numbers from 3209 to 3120; reduction of the of new overhead line separation areas arising from the removal of a section of the 110 kV overhead line; inclusion of an additional badger sett buffer and amendment of condition 3a to extend the operational lifetime of the solar farm from 35 years to 40 years. An updated Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with this application. A separate application to obtain permission for a 110kV grid connection and 110kV substation to facilitate the export of power from the solar farm, will be submitted to An Coimisiún Pleanála. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

For the development that will consist of a planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct & complete a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of circa 81.9 hectares, to include, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, electrical transformer & inverter station modules, a substation, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, watercourse crossing infrastructure, security fencing, electrical cabling & ducting, interconnection cabling, CCTV & other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping & habitat enhancement as required & associated site development works. The solar farm would be operational for 35 years. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with this application