Bord Pleanála agrees to quashing of windfarm planning permission

An Bord Pleanála has consented before the High Court to orders quashing its decision granting planning permissions for a windfarm and electricity sub-station in Co Cork.

The board accepted it failed to comply with fair procedures in not adhering to its own decision to circulate a submission made to it in January 2016 by Barna Wind Energy Ltd.

The board had agreed to circulate that submission to residents and other parties who were appealing to the board against Cork County Council’s separate grants of permission for the windfarm and sub-station but it failed to do so.