Woodstock South , Athy , Co. Kildare
- 23 Oct 2023Received
- 8 Dec 2023Refused
- Status
- Refused
- Decision
- Refused · 8 Dec 2023
- Council
- Kildare County Council
- Type
- EXTENSION OF DURATION
- Site
- 2.16 ha
What’s proposed
an energy storage facility to provide services to the national grid system on a 2.32ha site comprising: 1 No. sub-station building and associated transformers and grid compliance equipment, 18 No. battery storage containers, 18 No. combined power conversion system and transformer units, 18 No. HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) units, 1 No. DNO (Distribution Network Operator) sub-station and interface kiosk, 1 No. spares container, access track from access road serving Athy Business Campus and Athy Industrial Estate, CCTV and lighting, perimeter screening earth berm, closed board and wire mesh fencing and ecologically beneficial landscaping, underground surface water storage tank, temporary construction compound, and associated ancillary site development works and services
23961 is a planning application to Kildare County Council for an energy storage facility to provide services to the national grid system on a 2.32ha, received on 23 Oct 2023; permission was refused on 8 Dec 2023.
Planning details
- Reference
- 23961
- Local authority
- Kildare County Council
- Status
- Refused · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
- Received
- 23 Oct 2023
- Observations close
- 27 Nov 2023 (closed 1023 days ago)
- Decision due
- 17 Dec 2023 · decided 8 Dec 2023
- Decision
- Refused on 8 Dec 2023
- Proposed development
- an energy storage facility to provide services to the national grid system on a 2.32ha site comprising: 1 No. sub-station building and associated transformers and grid compliance equipment, 18 No. battery storage containers, 18 No. combined power conversion system and transformer units, 18 No. HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) units, 1 No. DNO (Distribution Network Operator) sub-station and interface kiosk, 1 No. spares container, access track from access road serving Athy Business Campus and Athy Industrial Estate, CCTV and lighting, perimeter screening earth berm, closed board and wire mesh fencing and ecologically beneficial landscaping, underground surface water storage tank, temporary construction compound, and associated ancillary site development works and servicesAs published by the register.
- Site area
- 2.16 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 52.99025, -7.00085
Zoning, appeals, sold prices, flood and heritage constraints — everything for this 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.
- Radon risk area · 1
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 133067). 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/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23961/0.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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