Planning application · Meath County Council

Installation of approximately 4km of underground electricty transmission cable across…

Drumgill Cornahoova Corratober , Ardagh & Meath Hill , Co. Meath

KA171177 · MeathIn Assessment
Reference
KA171177
Planning authority
Meath County Council
Received
9 Oct 2017
Decided
4 May 2018
Status
In Assessment
Site area
5.19 ha
Further information received
22 Feb 2018

Proposed development

the development will consist of: the installation of approximately 4km of underground electricty transmission cable across private lands and within the public roads numbered R165, L74021 and L7408. The cable will be installed predominantly in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers: ducting across the length of span of 1 no. bridge/culvert and directional drilling at 1 no. bridge/culvert; and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The proposed development is part of a larger overall development which will invole the installation of approximately 13km of underground electricity transmission cable from the permitted (wind farm) substation in the townland of Taghart South, County Cavan to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Meath Hill, County Meath and also extends into lands in the townlands of Taghart South, Corlea, Cornamagh, Collops, Corglass, Drumsallagh, Corawaddy, Carnagee, Cornakill, Dunaree, Lisanisky, Lisasturrin, Corgarry and Larchfield Glebe, County Cavan, and installed within the L7553, L3524, L3525, L3526, R165, L7612, L 3536, L7611, R164, R162 and L7561 within the adjoining planning authority jurisdiction of Cavan County Council. A concurrent planning application for that part of the overall development located within County Cavan has been submitted to Cavan County Council. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report/Environmental Impact Statement which includes an assessment of the likey impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to County Cavan Planning Register Refereance 16/74 & An Bord Pleanala Reference PL02.247401. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

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The council recorded a decision on 4 May 2018. The official file has the outcome; a third-party appeal is possible within four weeks of the decision.

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