{"id":1827,"date":"2025-04-15T20:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:22:27","slug":"photovoltaic-panels-over-council-car-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Photovoltaic panels over Council car parks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Council yesterday unanimously agreed to my motion to investigate placing photovoltaic panels over some of the off-street car parking areas run by the Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The motion read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat the Chief Executive carry out a feasibility analysis of placing photovoltaic panels above the parking areas of some of the over 5,000 off-street car parking spaces provided by the Council.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The webcast can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/fingalcoco.public-i.tv\/core\/portal\/webcast_interactive\/972769\/start_time\/8892000?force_language_code=en_GB\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fingalcoco.public-i.tv\/core\/portal\/webcast_interactive\/972769\/start_time\/8892000?force_language_code=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The motion is informed by this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/acrobat.adobe.com\/id\/urn:aaid:sc:EU:45db03bc-fbdd-48a6-9c56-adee911eae54\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/acrobat.adobe.com\/id\/urn:aaid:sc:EU:45db03bc-fbdd-48a6-9c56-adee911eae54\" target=\"_blank\">report by Cllr. Cadogan Enright<\/a> from Downpatrick which I referred to in the debate and which demonstrates the possibility for local authorities to bring in revenue from solar power. It received cross-party support and I will follow up in the budget process if no feasibility analysis is intitiated before then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council yesterday unanimously agreed to my motion to investigate placing photovoltaic panels over some of the off-street car parking areas run by the Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}