Finnaun ,
- 14 Feb 2020Received
- 2 Apr 2020Unconditional
- 1 Apr 2025Permission expires
- Status
- Granted
- Decision
- Unconditional · 2 Apr 2020
- Council
- Galway County Council
- Type
- EXTENSION OF DURATION
- Site
- 1411.09 ha
What’s proposed
for a 10 year permission to construct a wind farm consisting of 22 wind turbines, each with maximum hub height of 90m, maximum rotor diameter of 101m and with a total tip height of 140.5m, one permanent 90m meteorological mast, a sub-station including three control buildings and associated equipment, expansion of three existing borrow pits and two new borrow pits, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, expansion of drainage system, turbine hardstands, wastewater holding tank, underground cables and ancillary works (gross floor space 368.48sqm)
20198 is a planning application to Galway County Council for for a 10 year permission to construct a wind farm consisting of 22 wind turbines, each, received on 14 Feb 2020; permission was granted on 2 Apr 2020.
Planning details
- Reference
- 20198
- Local authority
- Galway County Council
- Status
- Granted · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
- Received
- 14 Feb 2020
- Observations close
- 20 Mar 2020 (closed 2373 days ago)
- Decision due
- 9 Apr 2020 · decided 2 Apr 2020
- Decision
- Unconditional on 2 Apr 2020
- Proposed development
- for a 10 year permission to construct a wind farm consisting of 22 wind turbines, each with maximum hub height of 90m, maximum rotor diameter of 101m and with a total tip height of 140.5m, one permanent 90m meteorological mast, a sub-station including three control buildings and associated equipment, expansion of three existing borrow pits and two new borrow pits, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, expansion of drainage system, turbine hardstands, wastewater holding tank, underground cables and ancillary works (gross floor space 368.48sqm)As published by the register.
- Site area
- 1411.09 ha from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
- Applicant
- Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register
Full planning report for 53.33965, -9.37172
Zoning, appeals, sold prices, flood and heritage — the whole area in one PDF.
No account, no payment. Not a statutory planning search.
Appeal
Not appealed.
Commencement
No commencement notice matched to this reference.
Zoning at the site
No zoning objective covers this site in the current plan.
Designations within 250 m
No OPW flood extent nearby.
No other designation nearby.
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44 (store id 355904). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here. Council register: http://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20198/0.
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