(Monaghan Rd R183 Site), Moraghy, Castleblayney
Proposed development
Permission to construct a new food production facility with a floor area of c.38,356m² on a site extending to c.7.14 hectares. The development includes the following; intake & storage, food prep areas including cooking, packing hall, parking and palletising, dispatch & cold storage, waste management, mezzanine floors, staff access corridors, office accommodation & staff facilities over 4 floors that includes canteen & roof garden, an energy centre building over 3 floors with internal refrigeration & mechanical plant rooms & external plant at roof level & a fully enclosed plant room to house a non-bio WWTS. The facility will vary in height. It includes all internal site roadways, circulation & yard areas including HGVs loading & unloading areas, intake and dispatch yards & trailer parking areas, car & cycle parking, LPG/Biogas refueling area & storage tanks for water, cooking oil, chemicals & gases related to the production activities, construction of underground attenuation drainage system, landscaping & boundary treatments includin fencing, ESB substation 38KV, signage on the building & 4 x totem pole signs fronting on to the R183 Monaghan Rd, 1.2MW solar array at roof level, rainwater harvesting, waste storage area, pump house, site lighting, compressors & roof mounted air handling & communications equipment & antennae including alteration of site levels & stabilisation works including removal of rock and its replacement on site & the construction of retaining structures. The demolition of existing buildings & structures. It will include the repositioning & upgrading of an existing HGV access & a security building an associated traffic control entrance barriers & gates, a new non-HGV vehicular access for staff & visitors onto the R183 with associated access controls & dedicated pedestrian/cycle access. Works on the public road, including the provision of bus stop and lay-by on the south side of the R183 between the two vehicular entrances, alterations to road markings, provision of a footpath, cycle lane & public lighting along the south side of the R183, connecting the existing footpath to the east & other site works. A new foul water sewer & discharge manhole will be constructed along the R183 in an eastward direction connecting to the existing network points east of the application site. An EIAR will accompany this application. Significant Further Information has been submitted
- Applicant
- Not published
- Authority
- Monaghan County Council
- Decision due
- 2 Nov 2023
Timeline
Application received
3 Feb 2023
Council asked for further information
29 Mar 2023
Further information received. If the council treats it as significant, a new submission period opens (check the council's file)
8 Sept 2023
Decision due
2 Nov 2023
Decision: conditional
2 Nov 2023
Grant issued
6 Dec 2023
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Planning history within 750 m
permission for minor changes to their previously approved development Planning Ref: 23/60152 to include; 1. Removal of single storey lean-to extensions to 18no. 2 storey Townhouses (comprising of 3 blocks of 4 and 2 blocks of 3 houses); 2. Minor elevation changes
permission for development consisting of the construction of a new showroom and warehouse premises comprising the following: 1. Construction of a two storey showroom/warehouse unit. 2. Provision of hardstanding areas, including car parking spaces, internal roads and turning heads. 3. Provision of an outdoor paving and hard landscaping display area, including a single-storey display structure. 4. Connection to existing public mains services. 5. Alteration of existing entrances onto the public roadway. 6. Installation of company signage on the building and at the site entrance. 7. Provision of new street lighting, including alterations to existing public lighting infrastructure. 8. Construction of entrance walls and gates, boundary fencing, and all associated ancillary site development works
permission for the construction of single storey extensions to the front and rear, elevational amendments, detached garage with loft storage, landscaping, new boundary wall and gate to replace of an existing hedge and all associated site works
permission for material change of use from an existing commercial building to a childcare facility, with internal reconfiguration, outdoor play area and installation of signage
permission for a first-floor extension to the rear above existing ground floor kitchen, ridge height to match existing with conversion of attic space to include bedrooms, shower room and storeroom, and 2no dormer windows to front roof. Also proposed layout changes to existing ground floor to accommodate new staircase, new render to front façade, and all ancillary site works.
APPEALED - ACP - DECISION: Granted; retention permission for an existing external yard storage building with full permission sought for a change of use from an existing retail outlet (RB Coogan) to a timber frame manufacturing facility with ancillary office and staff facilities; elevational changes, new signage, an extension to the existing external yard storage building, new plant room / ancillary store, alterations to the existing car parking areas, revised boundary treatments and all associated site development works. Significant Further Information received relates to submitted, Revised Plans, Water Protection Checklist, Car Parking proposal report, Flood Risk Assessment, Photo Montage and SUDs design Report.