Birdhill biogas plan invalidated

An application to Tipperary County Council for construction of a Biogas Generating Plant at Thornhill, Annaholty near Birdhill has been referred to the applicant after being determined by the planning authority as an ‘Incomplete Application’.

The planning authority was scheduled to give a decision on the application on Monday next, December 15. In a letter to the applicant on December 3, the county council advised that the application “is incomplete” due to a number of issues, which they defined within the correspondence.

Annaholty Green Energy Limited applied for permission to construct at 50,000 tonnes/annum Bio Gas generating plant on a 30 acres site at Thornhill, Annaholty adjoining the R445 (old N7) Limerick-Nenagh road.

Tipperary County Council received a total of 188 submissions in relation to the application for planning permission by Annaholty Green Energy Limited to construct a 50,000 tonnes/annum Biogas generating plant at Thornhill, Annaholty.

Among others, submissions in relation to the proposed development were mode by the EPA, NEHS (HSE), Alan Kelly, TD; Cllr John Carroll, Chairman, Tipperary County Council; Cllr Fiona Bonfield, a member of Tipperary County Council; Cllr Dr Phyll Bugler, chair, Nenagh Municipal District; Cllr Ursula Gavan, a member of Limerick County Council; Birdhill Tidy Village Committee, Castleconnell Masters Rowing, Birdhill Development and Environment Association, Annaholty Biogas Community Group, Birdhill NS Board of Management, Birdhill NS principal and staff, Longhouse Field Committee, and Birdhill Football Club.