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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 10, 2008

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor T. McDermott

To ask the Manager to report on the number of occasions that the installation of solar panels have been included in planning applications, the number of successful applications and the number of applications refused or conditioned to be omitted and reason for the decision, since 1st January 2007 and will he make a statement on the matter?

REPLY:

The following table outlines applications received and decided since 1st January 2007 where proposals for the installation of solar panels were explicitly included in the proposed development description

Applications Received	Decided	Granted*	Refused	Invalid	Withdrawn	Decision Due	Appealed**	Appeal Decided ***	Appeal decision due (SD07B/0781 Due 27th March 2008)
31	30	24	2	3	1	1	2	1	1

There may have been other applications where the erection of solar panels was not specifically outlined in the description of the proposed development but were included in the plans and particulars of the application. Unfortunately it is not possible to identify these.

*        Of 24 where overall decision was to grant permission, 1 contained conditions requiring the omission of solar panels in the interests of visual amenity. (SD07B/0781)

**      1 appeal was by 3rd party against Council decision to grant but not specifically against permission for solar panels. (SD06A/1117)

Other was 1st party appeal against decision to omit panels by condition as part of the councils overall decision to grant. (SD07B/0781)

 

***    Appeal decided was SD06A/1117 – Bord Pleanala upheld Councils Decision

         to grant.