GrantedInfrastructureDecided 4 September 2017

Lee Road Water Treatment Plant, Lee Road, Cork City

Major upgrade and extension of the Lee Road Water Treatment Plant in Cork City.

1637183 · Cork City Council · Lodged 5 December 2016

Reference: 1637183
Authority: Cork City Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 5 December 2016

Summary

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Planning permission is sought to upgrade, replace, and extend the existing water treatment plant to a 40MLD capacity facility. The works involve demolishing the raw water pump house, erecting multiple new treatment structures, an administration building, and a sludge dewatering building on a site containing a Protected Structure.

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Official record

Development description

Planning permission to upgrade, replace and extend the existing lee road water treatment plant, lee road, cork city with a 40mld capacity water treatment facility. Permission is sought for the demolition of the raw water pump house, construction of a new roof to the existing sedimentation tanks, and the erection of new structures including raw water pump house and chemical dosing, chlorine tank and hydrofluorosilic tank, floc tank, new filters (with roof), filter clean backwash tank and pumping station, administration building, treated water reservoir and pumping station, store, esb sub-station, lime silo & lime-dosing house, filter washwater holding tanks, and the erection of a sludge dewatering building, sludge tank farm and site development works including drainage with attenuation, foul pumping station, relocation of treated waste process water outfall, and relocated site entrance and all ancillary site works and boundary treatment. A recorded protected structure (rps ref: ps619) is located within the development site. A natura impact assessment (nis) accompanies this application

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Public Infrastructure and utilitiesTU

“To provide for public infrastructure and utilities.”

National zoning type: Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses

Objective set by the Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 (2022–2028). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

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Built & sold

What happened next

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Built — construction complete

A commencement notice records works starting on 14 October 2020.

Notified floor area: 947 m²

3 commencement notices are linked to this development.

Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
No. 3 Lee Court, Lee Road, Sundays Wellprice excludes VAT	Aug 2025	€211,454	186 m
St Edmunds, 3 Lee Cottages, Lee Rd	Feb 2025	€10,000	187 m
16 Lee Vista, Lee Road, Cork	Jan 2025	€330,000	188 m
9 Lee Vista, Lee Rd, Cork	Jun 2025	€300,000	188 m
Apt 5, Lee Vista, Lee Rd	Jul 2025	€230,000	188 m
Apt 8 - Lee Vista, Lee Road, Cork	Mar 2026	€340,000	188 m
Apt 403, Atkins Hall, Lee Road	Jan 2025	€209,000	204 m
311 Atkins Hall, Lee Rd, Cork	May 2026	€220,000	204 m

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Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.

Key dates

Timeline

Application received5 December 2016
Decision due4 September 2017
Decision issued4 September 2017
Grant issued30 January 2018
Appeal submitted2 October 2017
Appeal decided30 January 2018

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