Observation pack · Wicklow County Council

Ballynabarny , Rathnew , Co. Wicklow

to construct a roofed manure store with all associated site works

Observations close 5 Oct 2026 window closed

5 weeks from receipt (received 31 Aug 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 25 Oct 2026

The five-week window has passed. Late observations are returned unread. If the council has decided, the next door is the appeal window — but under s.37 only the applicant and those who made a valid observation may appeal.

The application

Reference: 2660781 · full record
Authority: Wicklow County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 2.38 ha
Received: 31 Aug 2026
We first saw it: 18 Sept 2026, 16:04
Decision due: 25 Oct 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/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660781/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660781 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. Wicklow County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 5 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Wicklow 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

Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
Recorded monument × 4
R148685 · R148688 · Fulacht fia

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Distance	Description
2560764	Conditional	19 Dec 2025	178 m	RED III Category 3 Development - Construction of a solar PV energy development with an operational life of 40 years on three land parcels totalling approximately 203.5 hectares comprising the installation of approximately 806,630 sq. m. of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames and associated ancillary development including: 23 no. transformers stations, 2 no. Ring Main Unit buildings, string-inverters attached to panel frames, CCTV security cameras mounted on 4 metre high poles, deer-proof perimeter security fencing (2 metres high) raised 150mm to allow for the movement of small mammals, 3 no. site entrances utilising existing entrances including upgrade to entrance on L1111 to facilitate construction and operational phase access, internal access tracks between the solar arrays and the site entrances, 2 no. clear span bridges over existing watercourses, 1 no. primary temporary construction compound and 2 no. satellite temporary construction compounds, all associated ancillary development works including landscaping; and the installation of a total of ca. 6.1 kilometres of 33Kv double circuit underground cable, of which ca. 2.4 kilometres will be beneath public (L1111, L1113, L5113, L51132 and L5112) and private roads in an excavated trench including underground ducting and joint bays and all associated site development and reinstatement works to connect the proposed Ring Main Units on two of the land parcels of the solar PV energy development and extending to the site of a proposed 110kv substation to be the subject of a separate planning permission under the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006.
2560311	Conditional	6 Jun 2025	179 m	the development of grid connection infrastructure comprising the laying of ca. 3.3 kilometres (3,300 metres) of Medium Voltage underground electricity cables and associated infrastructure substantially under public roads and private lands to connect the solar photovoltaic (‘PV’) energy development on lands at Ballinaclough, Rathnew, Country Wicklow (approved under Register Reference 161380) to a new Medium Voltage electricity substation and to a new joint slab box on private land near L95113 road in, or in the vicinity of the townlands of Ballinaclogh, Ballynabarny and Ballybeg, County Wicklow
24365	Unconditional	18 Nov 2024	109 m	Part 8 to carry our Road Widening works along Rocky Road, Wicklow Town from Carrig Beag Housing Development to M11 Junction to increase the carriageway width to between 5.5m and 6m throughout along with the introduction of New Pedestrian Footpath along the Roadside of the existing Rockey Road between Carrig Beag Housing Development at the Junction with Ashtown Lane. Public Lighting will be installed along the footpath section. Works include new roadside drainage for surface water. Boundary treatments and accommodation works will be required in certain locations. ( For submission/ observation details please see the development site notice)
221269	Conditional	21 Nov 2023	452 m	development of an Enterprise Park comprising a total of 42 industrial/warehouse/distribution units, each with two-storey office element together with roads, paving, car parking, open spaces, landscaping, public lighting and provision of all services associated with the development. The permission sought is for a 10 year duration

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
500687	—	Granted	29 May 2026	178 m

If neighbours here have appealed before and lost, the inspector's report on that case is the single most useful thing to read.

What has happened on this file

31 Aug 2026 New application · observations close 5 Oct 2026
31 Aug 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 18 Sept 2026, 16:04. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Wicklow County Council before relying on it.