Planning applications in Aghada

50-Dwelling Residential Development, Aghada Upper

Traceway Limited intends to apply for permission for development to construct a residential development comprising of 50 no. two storeys dwellings ranging (totalling 6,650.59 sq m Gross Floor Space) at a site of approximately 2.1 hectares located in the townland of Aghada along the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside, Aghada Upper, Co. Cork. The proposed development will consist of: - 9 no. two-storey 4-bedroom detached dwellings (174.22 sq m gross floor space each) totalling 1,567.98 sq m gross floor space; - 6 no. two-storey 4-bedroom semi-detached dwellings (148.64 sq m each) arranged over 3 no. buildings of 301.84 sq m gross floor space each (totalling 905.52 sq m gross floor space); - 26 no. two-storey 3-bedroom semi-detached dwellings (118.9 sq m each) arranged over 13 no. buildings of 242.43 sq m gross floor space each (totalling 3,151.62 sq m gross floor space); - 9 no. two-storey 3-bedroom terrace dwellings (end-terrace dwellings of 113.56 sq m each and mid-terrace dwellings of 105.44 sq m each) arranged over 3 no. buildings of 341.82 sq m gross floor space each (totalling 1,025.47 sq m gross floor space); all with associated vehicular parking (2 no. per dwelling totalling 100 no. car parking spaces), boundary treatments, private and public open spaces, hard and soft landscaping, internal roads and pedestrian walkways, pedestrian accesses/permeability routes, public site lighting, 10 no. visitor bicycle parking spaces, services (incl. sustainable urban drainage measures incorporating surface water attenuated soakaway), and all other ancillary infrastructure and associated site development works above and below ground level. Primary vehicular and pedestrian access to the proposed development will be via a new entrance from the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside Upper Aghada (at the existing agricultural site access location), and a secondary pedestrian access will be provided in a southeastern location of the site via a new dedicated pedestrian entrance from the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside Upper Aghada.

Townland of Aghada, along the Local Road L3658-0 at Hillside, Aghada Upper, Co. Cork · 3 Jul 2026

Aghada LDES Battery Energy Storage Project

Electricity Supply Board (ESB) intend to apply for Permission for development at this site of 4.65 hectares at Ballincarroonig, Aghada, County Cork, within the wider ESB landholding. The development will consist of the "Aghada LDES" (Aghada Long Duration Energy Storage) project comprising a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with a capacity of up to 300 MW. It comprises a fenced compound containing a BESS compound and Customer HV Compound. Specifically, the BESS compound will feature up to 200 No. 20 ft battery energy storage system (BESS) enclosures and up to 20 No. Medium Voltage (MV) Skids / Twin Inverter Skids and associated bunds. Associated ancillary equipment includes 1 no. MV switchgear building, 1 no. Control Building, 5 no. LV Switchgear Containers, a fire water tank and pumphouse, Operation and Maintenance site offices (O&M portacabin) including welfare facilities, 3 no. spare parts stores (20-40 ft containers), 1 no. backup diesel generator plinth, an underground fire water retention tank, a surface water soakaway, harmonics structure (if required following testing of equipment), all services connections including electrical, potable water and connections to surface water drains, external lighting poles, CCTV, lighting monopole. The proposed Customer HV Compound will comprise Grid Step-up Transformers and associated bunds and fire walls, 5 No. Auxiliary Transformers and associated bunds, associated electrical equipment including current transformers/voltage transformers (CT/VT) Circuit Breakers, Neutral Earth Resistors, Cable Chairs, and Line Earth Disconnects, external lighting poles, CCTV, lightning monopole. The development proposal also includes a new site access road from the existing Aghada station, access gate, palisade fencing to secure both compounds (2.6m high) and all ancillary site clearance and development works including provision of areas of hard standing, internal access roads, laydown area, car parking and connections to site services and networks. The proposed development is located within the wider ESB Aghada Generating Station complex, which operates under EPA Industrial Emissions Licence Ref. P0561-05 and is a notified Lower Tier COMAH / Seveso establishment. A COMAH Land Use Planning Assessment has been submitted with the application. The proposed BESS development itself is not a COMAH establishment and does not comprise an activity requiring an Industrial Emissions Licence.

The townland of Ballincarroonig, Aghada, Co. Cork, within the wider ESB landholding · 21 Aug 2026