Kilbreckan, Doora, Ennis
Development of a motorway service area and rest area adjacent to Junction 12 of the M18 in Ennis.
18564 · Clare County Council · Lodged 11 July 2018
- Reference
- 18564
- Authority
- Clare County Council
- Register status
- Withdrawn
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 11 July 2018
Summary
AI-generatedThe proposed development includes a service station building with a convenience shop, food court, fuel facilities, parking, play area, and 16 electric vehicle charging points. It also features extensive infrastructure works, including a rising main sewer, solar panels, and an on-site wastewater treatment plant.
Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.
Official record
Development description
With rising main sewer via existing public road / road margins through the townlands of kilbreckan, killow, skehanagh, clareabbey and ballybeg to develop a motorway service area and rest area adjacent to junction 12 of the m18. The proposed development will include a service station building with convenience shop, food court, staff facilities, canopy, fuel facilities, parking and circulation space, children's play area, picnic area and access provision. The development also includes infrastructural works, public lighting, signage, landscaping, internal fencing, electrical substation, sixteen electric cars charging points, roof mounted solar panels, storm water runoff petrol interceptors and attenuation system, on-site wastewater treatment plant including access road, pumping station and connection to public foul sewer, drainage improvement works, underground fuel storage tanks, rain water harvesting system, connection to public water supply, underground storage tanks for fire fighting purposes, underground rain water harvesting tanks, upgrade to adjacent roundabout and ancillary works. The connection to the public sewerage system will be by means of a rising main to an existing public sewer via existing public road / road margins through the townlands of kilbreckan, killow, skehenagh, clareabbey and ballybeg, a natura impact statement ( nis ) will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“Buffer spaces are intended to provide a buffer of undev. land for the conservation of biodiversity, visual amenity or green space. Buffer spaces may include natural features e.g. floodplains, riparian zones, turloughs, valuable biodiversity areas etc.”
National zoning type: Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape
Objective set by the Ennis and Environs (2023–2029). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.
Read the zoning objectives in the development planKey dates
Timeline
- Application received11 July 2018
- Further information requested3 September 2018
- Application withdrawn27 May 2019
In the area
Applications near this site
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- Awaiting decision300 m away
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- Granted390 m away
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16537ClareLodged 30 Jun 2016New dwelling
- Granted470 m away
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Site No. 1 Killow , Clarecastle , Co. Clare
16201ClareLodged 14 Mar 2016New dwelling
- Granted470 m away
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Site No. 1 Killow , Clarecastle , Co. Clare
1840ClareLodged 25 Jan 2018New dwelling
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