Edward Buckley and Edel Grace lose windfarm challenge

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Edward Buckley and Edel Grace lost their High Court challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s Tipperary windfarm permission in a judgment delivered on 29 July 2015. The case concerned permission for Ecopower Developments Ltd to build 22 wind turbines in County Tipperary.

Mr Justice Cregan refused to quash the permission. He held that withdrawing consent after the planning application was made did not invalidate the application or the Board’s jurisdiction, and found that adopting the inspector’s report sufficiently complied with the environmental impact assessment requirement.