{"id":437788,"date":"2026-05-07T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:50:14","slug":"residents-appeal-permission-for-162-acre-solar-farm-in-wicklow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437788\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents appeal permission for 162-acre solar farm in Wicklow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A stock image of a solar farm.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/22fad440-c92b-4028-96f3-ff85b5ec5d61.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A stock image of a solar farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An appeal has been submitted against planning permission granted for a large-scale solar farm and battery storage units covering 162 acres in west Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Wicklow Renewables was granted permission by Wicklow County Council for the construction of the development in the townland of Mullycagh Upper, between Hollywood and Donard villages. The operational lifetime of the development will be 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stock image of a solar farm. An appeal has been submitted against planning permission granted for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,246,61,60,4657],"class_list":["post-437788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-myles-buchanan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}