Site adjacent to and northwest of Meath Hill Substation Meath Hill , and Ardagh between the settlements of Kingscourt and Drumconrath , Co. Meath
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2560725 is a planning application for permission at Site adjacent to and northwest of Meath Hill Substation Meath Hill , and Ardagh between the settlements of Kingscourt and Drumconrath , Co. Meath, received by Meath County Council on 11 Jul 2025 and first seen by Planning Register on 11 Sept 2026. The application describes: 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. The council granted permission on 1 Sept 2025, with conditions. The five-week observation window closed on 15 Aug 2025. Within 500 m there are 6 other decided applications in the last five years.
Proposal
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
- Status
- APPLICATION FINALISED
- Decision
- Conditional on 1 Sept 2025
- Final grant
- 20 Oct 2025
- Permission expires
- 19 Oct 2030
- Site (from polygon)
- 6.83 ha
- Location precision
- site (coords_polygon)
Timeline
- 11 Jul 2025New applicationObservation window closed 15 Aug 2025
- 1 Sept 2025DecisionAppeal window closed 29 Sept 2025
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Appeal
Not appealed.
Commencement
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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 146310). 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/2560725/0.
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