A plan for a renewable energy plant at a former quarry beside Colin Glen Forest Park in West Belfast has been approved.
Elected representatives at Belfast City Council ’s Planning Committee this week gave the green light to a battery energy storage system with storage capacity up to 50 megawatts. The proposal involves 25 battery container units and 25 substations, improvement to the existing access, landscaping and other ancillary site works.
There were no objections to the application from any of the statutory organisations, but three objecting representations were made to the council from the National Trust Trust and the Belfast Hills Partnership. They raised issues surrounding the protection of existing trees, the impact on visual amenity, cabling, site drainage, safety, acoustic concerns, and potential alternative sites.
It adds: “The development is unlikely to have a significant adverse effect on the quality, character or features of interest. The landscape and visual appraisal has demonstrated that the development is likely to be assimilated within the landscape to some degree due to the site’s location on lower valley slopes and the intervening tree cover. In addition, proposed woodland and hedgerow planting will also help integrate development proposals within the existing landscape setting.
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