development which will consist of a new limestone rock quarry on a site of 26.2 hectares(ha) in total. The quarry footprint and quarry access road will cover an area of 11.8ha and the remaining 14.4ha of the site will be used for the provision of a site entrance with gates and access road(770 metres(m)), with stream crossing to gain access to the site from the R156; an internal haul road(590m), with gates and improvements to an existing land-drain crossing; a quarry surface-water settlement lagoon system(3988 square metres (sq.m)) with full retention separator and discharge weir; office and reception building(55sq.m); weigh-bridge (60 sq.m); proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area (96 sq.m); wheelwash (53 sq.m); covered and bunded fuel tanks (38 sq.m.); erection of a garage building (388 sq.m.) containing: workshop, canteen, laboratory, office, storeroom, toilet and shower block facilities; ESB supply room and switch-house (35 sq.m.); an overburden screening mound(2.
Development Address:
Mullagh and Mulhussey, Kilcock , Co Meath
Architect Name:
David McKenna
Location Key:
MULLAGH AND MULHUSSEY
Electoral Division:
Incorrect Icl Voter Recor
Planner:
None
Social Housing Exempt:
Plan Enforcement #:
IPC
Licence Required:
No
Waste Licence Required:
No
Protected Structure:
No
Protected Structure #:
Development Name:
Proposed Development
Comments
Significant Case Flag:
Comments:
Agreement-Refused by Bord Planeala
Decision
Decision Date:
21/04/2005
Manager Order:
DN/197/05
Decision Type:
Conditional
Number of Conditions:
26
Grant Date:
Grant Managers Order #:
Section 47
Apply?:
Part 5
Apply?:
Expiry Date:
21/04/2010
Decision Description:
development which will consist of a new limestone rock quarry on a site of 26.2 hectares(ha) in total. The quarry footprint and quarry access road will cover an area of 11.8ha and the remaining 14.4ha of the site will be used for the provision of a site entrance with gates and access road(770 metres(m)), with stream crossing to gain access to the site from the R156; an internal haul road(590m), with gates and improvements to an existing land-drain crossing; a quarry surface-water settlement lagoon system(3988 square metres (sq.m)) with full retention separator and discharge weir; office and reception building(55sq.m); weigh-bridge (60 sq.m); proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area (96 sq.m); wheelwash (53 sq.m); covered and bunded fuel tanks (38 sq.m.); erection of a garage building (388 sq.m.) containing: workshop, canteen, laboratory, office, storeroom, toilet and shower block facilities; ESB supply room and switch-house (35 sq.m.); an overburden screening mound(2.
undertaking of land reclamation works, including the importation & spreading of topsoil & inert material on lands. The works to be phased & it is proposed to construct a temporary access road & hard standing as part of the works, it is also proposed to use an existing widened entrance. Permission for the widened entrance & access road is the subject of a seperate application currently on appeal
the development will consist of a 10-year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40-year operation and subsequent decommissioning of, a development consisting of a 205.15-hectare solar farm (red line boundary) and underground grid connection route. The solar farm comprises of three separate land parcels divided by local roads. The proposed solar farm will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas on concrete shoes to protect possible underground archaeological features, together with 58 electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, 2no. temporary construction compounds and use of existing 1no. hardstanding, the use of existing farm access tracks, existing site entrances, widening of 3no. existing site entrance, inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing with some areas of boundary development on concrete shoes to further protect possible underground archaeological features, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity and transmitting it in the townlands of Mulhussey, Batterstown, Longtown, Mullagh & Milltown, Kilcock, Co. Meath. A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application. Significiant further information / revised plans submitted on this applicaiton.
