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A Portarlington school has been granted permission to alter its traffic arrangements and build an energy centre.
The planning application for Presentation Primary School on Station Road in Portarlington was lodged under the name of the Minister for Education, Department of Education.
Laois County Council has conditionally approved the plans which will see traffic arrangements at the site altered in order to ease traffic, an extra parking space installed and solar panels fitted to the school’s roof.
Under the plans, which were approved subject to nine conditions, two existing sheds will be demolished and a “free standing energy centre” will be built.
The approved plans are to “carry out the decarbonization of Presentation Primary School by demolishing two existing sheds, measuring 36sqm in area , and erecting a single-storey, free-standing energy centre , comprising biomass fuel store and enclosed plant room with flue, together measuring 38 sqm in area and two open-air liquid petroleum gas tanks in fenced enclosure”.
It further allows “altering site roads and car parking, and adding one car parking space, to relieve traffic congestion at drop-off and pick-up times; installing cowls on elevations of existing school to enable operation of new internal heat recovery units, and fitting photovoltaic array on southern slope of roof to existing school.”
The planning permission was approved by Laois County Council on Monday, July 3.
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