Observation pack · Tipperary County Council

Ballynilard , Tipperary , Co. Tipperary

RED III application for development which comprises the construction of an anaerobic digestion facility to produce renewable biomethane, and a bio-based fertiliser from organic material. The total gross floor area of the proposed development (including internal plant areas and ancillary structures) will be c. 3,301 sq.m. The development is a renewable energy development which is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III. The development will consist of the following: • Construction of 3 no. digesters (all c. 15.5m in height), 2 no. digestate storage structures (c. 15.5m and c. 12m in height), and a pump room and O2 generation structure (with a GFA of c. 27 sq.m. and a height of c. 2.6m), located in the northern section of the main site area. • 4 no. pasteurisation tanks (each c. 6m in height), a post pasteurisation cooling tank (c. 4m in height), and a pre fertiliser manufacturing tank (c. 4m in height), located to the southeast of the main digesters. • A liquid feed tank (c. 4m in height), a pump house (with a height of c. 2.6m and GFA of 14 sq.m), and a pump skid (c. 0.8m in height), located to the southwest of the main digesters. • A part single-storey and part two-storey reception hall (with a gross floor area (GFA) of c. 1,964 sq.m. and an overall height of c. 16.5m) to accommodate a laboratory, panel room, tool store, workshop, and storage areas, with a liquid feed intake adjacent to the reception hall, located in the central portion of the site. • A single-storey solid digestate storage and a nutrient recovery building (with a GFA of c. 880 sq.m and an overall height of c. 12.4m) located to the east of the reception hall, in the central portion of the site. • A pump house (with a height of c. 2.6m and GFA of 21 sq.m), a fuel storage tank (c. 1.6m in height), and a backup generator (c. 2.3m in height), located adjacent to the nutrient recovery building. • Odour abatement plant (with an overall height of c. 7m) and equipment and a digestate offtake area will be provided to the east of the solid digestate storage and nutrient recovery building. • construction of an emergency biogas flare (c. 11.3m in height), 2 no. biogas treatment skids (with an overall height of c. 4.1m), 2 no. biogas compression structures (with a height of c. 2.6m), a biogas upgrading module (with a maximum height of c. 4.6m and a GFA of c. 28 sq.m), a combined heat and power unit and panel room (with a height of c. 10m to top of flue), a biomethane boiler (

Observations close 16 Oct 2026 14 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 11 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 5 Nov 2026

The application

Reference: 2660893 · full record
Authority: Tipperary County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 6.63 ha
Received: 11 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 22 Sept 2026, 16:10
Decision due: 5 Nov 2026
Decision: N/a

The national dataset truncates descriptions (80 characters for DLR, 70 for Fingal) and omits the applicant. The full description and the drawings are on the council register linked in step 1.

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at http://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660893/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660893 at the top, give your name and the address the authority should reply to, and confine it to planning matters — zoning objective, height, overlooking, traffic, drainage, heritage. What you say here is what you can later appeal on.
Pay the €20 fee.Every submission needs it; without it the observation is invalid and is returned. Tipperary County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 16 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Tipperary County Council. The test is the date the authority receives it, not the date you post it.
Keep the acknowledgement.The council's receipt is your proof of a valid observation — see below.

Statutory basis. Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) requires a planning authority to consider any submission or observation made to it in accordance with the Regulations. Article 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) sets the window: a submission or observation must be received by the authority within five weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the application, and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of €20. A submission received after the window, or without the fee, is invalid and the authority must return it.

After you submit: keep the acknowledgement. Under the 2024 Act it secures your right to appeal — only the applicant and a person who made a valid observation may bring the council's decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála, within four weeks of the decision. Making a valid observation is also what buys a right of appeal: under s.37(1) of the 2000 Act, only the applicant and a person who made a valid submission or observation to the planning authority may appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála (within four weeks of the decision). Missing the five-week window closes both doors.

What the site is zoned

No current zoning polygon covers this site in the store.

Designations on or near the site

Recorded monument × 1
R135327

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Distance	Description
2360765	Conditional	17 Nov 2023	440 m	alterations to the previously permitted solar farm as follows: a) Replacement of a permitted single storey terminal electrical station and a separate single storey electrical switchroom (permitted as part of a solar farm permission by Tipperary County Council Reg. Ref. 16600359) with a single storey 20kV substation building on the site of the previously permitted terminal electrical station; repositioning of a permitted storage container, and minor solar panel layout revision adjacent to the proposed substation; repositioning of entrance gate and security fencing at entrance to the solar farm field; and provision of new gate in perimeter security fence adjacent to Ballynilard Stream; and b) Permission to increase the operational period of the solar farm from 25 years to 40 years
22479	Conditional	24 Oct 2022	152 m	1. filling and raising of former quarry for agricultural use, using clean, inert construction and demolition waste, soil and subsoil including all necessary re-seeding and preservation of boundaries and boundary features. 2. crushing of some imported inert construction and demolition waste including permission for heaping and storage of all recycled aggregate. 3. permission is also sought for the sale and transport off site of crushed, recycled aggregate (circular economy) 4. permission for installation of prefabricated structures comprising staff canteen, office and toilet accommodation including the installation of a on-site effluent treatment system and all associated site development works (this development will require a waste licence)
22210	Conditional	29 Apr 2022	275 m	Permission to de-commission existing septic tank and for permission to install waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and associated site works

Appeals

No appeals within 500 m in the last 5 years.

What has happened on this file

11 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 16 Oct 2026
11 Sept 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 22 Sept 2026, 16:10. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Tipperary County Council before relying on it.