Site adjacent to and northwest of Meath Hill Substation , Meath Hill and Ardagh between the settlements of Kingscourt and Drumconrath , Co. Meath
- 23 Jun 2025Received
- 28 Jul 2025Observations closed
- Status
- Withdrawn or invalid
- Decision
- Not yet
- Council
- Meath County Council
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Site
- 6.83 ha
What’s proposed
permission for the construction of an electricity storage facility comprising a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), within a total site area of up to 6.9ha, to include one electrical compound, electrical transformer/invertor station modules, 56no. battery storage enclosures (BSEs), 28no. power conversion systems on concrete support structures, attenuation pond of 1220 cubic metres, indicative 110kV buried import/export cable and indicative 110kV substation to facilitate connection to the existing 110kV Meath Hill substation, upgraded access tracks, crane hardstanding, associated electrical ducting, palisade security fencing and CCTV system, landscaping works, lighting poles and all other ancillary and miscellaneous site works including site clearance
2560643 is a planning application to Meath County Council for permission for the construction of an electricity storage facility comprising a Battery, received on 23 Jun 2025; the file is recorded as incompleted application.
Planning details
- Reference
- 2560643
- Local authority
- Meath County Council
- Status
- Withdrawn or invalid · register status “INCOMPLETED APPLICATION”
- Received
- 23 Jun 2025
- Observations close
- 28 Jul 2025 (closed 413 days ago)
- Decision due
- No due date published
- Decision
- Not decided
- Proposed development
- permission for the construction of an electricity storage facility comprising a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), within a total site area of up to 6.9ha, to include one electrical compound, electrical transformer/invertor station modules, 56no. battery storage enclosures (BSEs), 28no. power conversion systems on concrete support structures, attenuation pond of 1220 cubic metres, indicative 110kV buried import/export cable and indicative 110kV substation to facilitate connection to the existing 110kV Meath Hill substation, upgraded access tracks, crane hardstanding, associated electrical ducting, palisade security fencing and CCTV system, landscaping works, lighting poles and all other ancillary and miscellaneous site works including 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 145955). 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/2560643/0.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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