Meath Hill and Ardagh , between the settlements of Kingscourt and Drumconrath , Co. Meath
- 26 Jul 2024Received
- 30 Aug 2024Observations closed
- Status
- Withdrawn or invalid
- Decision
- Not yet
- Council
- Meath County Council
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Site
- 6.83 ha
What’s proposed
construction of an electricity storage facility comprising a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with an installed capacity of up to 50MW, within a total site area of up to 6.9ha, to include one single storey electrical substation building and electrical compound, electrical transformer/inverter station modules, 64no. battery storage enclosures (BSEs), 8 no. power conversion systems on concrete support structures, attenuation pond of 1212 cubic metres, 110kV buried import/export cable to facilitate connection to the existing 110kV Meath Hill substation, upgraded access tracks, crane hardstanding, associated electrical ducting, security fencing and CCTV system, landscaping works, lighting poles and all other ancillary miscellaneous site works include site clearance
2460567 is a planning application to Meath County Council for construction of an electricity storage facility comprising a Battery Energy Storage, received on 26 Jul 2024; the file is recorded as incompleted application.
Planning details
- Reference
- 2460567
- Local authority
- Meath County Council
- Status
- Withdrawn or invalid · register status “INCOMPLETED APPLICATION”
- Received
- 26 Jul 2024
- Observations close
- 30 Aug 2024 (closed 745 days ago)
- Decision due
- No due date published
- Decision
- Not decided
- Proposed development
- construction of an electricity storage facility comprising a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with an installed capacity of up to 50MW, within a total site area of up to 6.9ha, to include one single storey electrical substation building and electrical compound, electrical transformer/inverter station modules, 64no. battery storage enclosures (BSEs), 8 no. power conversion systems on concrete support structures, attenuation pond of 1212 cubic metres, 110kV buried import/export cable to facilitate connection to the existing 110kV Meath Hill substation, upgraded access tracks, crane hardstanding, associated electrical ducting, security fencing and CCTV system, landscaping works, lighting poles and all other ancillary miscellaneous site works include site clearanceAs published by the register.
- Site area
- 6.83 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 53.89306, -6.73387
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.
No other designation nearby.
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 144199). 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/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460567/0.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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