Opponents of a large scale solar farm around the village of Dualla have vowed to continue their fight.
Tipperary County Council granted permission in recent days to Power Capital for the 130 hectare development.
Over 300 submissions were received by Tipperary County Council in relation to the proposals
There will be a 10 year construction phase with an operational lifespan of 40 years.
Conor Breen from Dualla Together told Tipp Today earlier that the submissions made by experts engaged by the group were effectively ignored by the local authority.
“I don’t think for the work that was put into this by Dualla Together that there’s any backbone in anyone in Tipperary. We are now left with no alternative only to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and as a community again go out and fundraise and try and raise enough money to fight this with An Bord Pleanala.
“I mean if you looked at the issues that were raised by the individual experts – with the water, with the ecology, with the archaeology and the geophysicist there is now way this planning permission should have been granted.
“The Council have let us down. It should be Power Capital and the four landowners appealing to An Bord Pleanala not the 308 people that put in the submissions and the further 170 people who put in the submissions the second time round. We’ve been let down and the County Council as far as we’re concerned have not followed the County Development Plan 2022 to 2028.”
