Eia Submitted

On 15 January 2026, Oriel Windfarm Ltd submitted Significant Additional Information (SAI) to An Bord Pleanala in response to the Request for Further Information issued by the planning authority on the Oriel Wind Farm Project strategic infrastructure application ABP-319799-24. The SAI package comprises two principal documents: (1) a Response to Submissions Report addressing the public and prescribed-body submissions received during the original 2024-2025 consultation window, and (2) a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) Addendum providing further environmental information on potential effects on Natura 2000 sites, required by the authority's further information requests issued in August 2024 and April 2025. The original Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) was submitted to An Bord Pleanala on 22 March 2024 and the planning application was lodged on 24 May 2024; the statutory decision due date of 2 December 2024 was passed without decision, reflecting the complexity of the first-wave Irish offshore wind consent process. The SAI is classified here as an eia_submitted resubmission because the NIS Addendum is a formal EIA-related environmental document submitted for the authority's review, and the eia_submitted event type description explicitly covers 'resubmissions following revisions'. This submission is a significant milestone showing that although the consenting process is slow, it is actively progressing and the developers continue to invest in responding to regulatory requirements. Recorded during manual audit review 2026-04-15.