A number of local residents have lost their legal challenge over the approval of permission for a windfarm development in Co Cork.

Bord Pleanála can reconsider an application for planning permission for a windfarm development in Co Cork in accordance with findings of the court concerning assessment of the development’s environmental impact, the High Court has ruled.

A plan for six wind turbines in Co Cork has to be considered as part of an overall assessment of how they will be connected to the national power grid, the High Court has found.

A residents’ group has brought a legal challenge aimed at overturning Bord Pleanála’s grant of planning permission for a development of several wind turbines near their homes in Co Cork.