Ábhair:
- Clarity needs to be provided for the ‘Areas of Further Assessment’ for wind energy zoning, it needs to be made clear that the assessments for these areas are indeed finalised and that Map 12.4 is the final product of all the councils assessments. It is easy to see how members of the public reading the plan could misinterpret the “Areas of Further Assessment” as still being a work in progress when the reality is they are not. This has led to people misinforming themselves of what is actually potentially “Open to Consideration” and an additional paragraph relating to this should be included to clear up any confusion.
- A setback distance of 6 times the blade tip height from the curtilage of any residential property should be imposed on the development of wind turbines.
- In relation to repowering, wind farms that are less than 8 years old should not be zoned for repowering.
- Further clarity needs to be provided on repowering, is this a national directive that wind areas need to be repowered, if so please state where this is ?
- A buffer zone of 2 KMs should be put in place near any SAC/SPC in order to protect our wildlife and habitats. 500m is far from adequate.
- I am proposing that Planning Permission for Battery Storage Units should not be granted in Kerry until such time that Planning Guidelines are put in place for their development.
- I am requesting that the Chief Fire Officer sets out in this plan how the fire service in Kerry will deal with an emergency such as a fire, what training/equipment the fire service in Kerry have in dealing with Lithium Battery fires of this scale.
- That it would be a requirement of a planning application for any large scale renewable energy project to distribute an information pack outlining the proposed development to every address within 10KM of the development site.
- That Kerry County Council would support the development of an LNG Terminal in the Ballylongford/Tarbert landbank.