{"id":525633,"date":"2026-06-30T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525633\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:33:25","slug":"taoiseach-promises-wind-farm-guidelines-by-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525633\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach promises wind farm guidelines by Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The long awaited new planning guidelines around the development of wind farms are expected to be published by government this Autumn. That\u2019s according to the Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin.<\/p>\n<p>The present planning guidelines on wind farm developments are twenty years old and fail to take into account the significant increase in blade heights over that time.<\/p>\n<p>The Taoiseach acknowledged the need for updated guidelines when he spoke to Midwest News in Westport on Friday last.<\/p>\n<p>The Taoiseach was in Westport for the official opening of The Grace Hotel in the town<\/p>\n<p>He described the extensively refurbished hotel as another important \u00a0asset in Westport\u2019s tourism product\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mm-1.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mm-1.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long awaited new planning guidelines around the development of wind farms are expected to be published by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-525633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525633","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=525633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}