GrantedInfrastructureDecided 9 October 2024

Townland of Rathpeacon, Killeens, Cork City

Conversion of the Killeens Wastewater Treatment Plant into a pumping station with a new access road and pipelines.

2443191 · Cork City Council · Lodged 15 August 2024

Reference: 2443191
Authority: Cork City Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 15 August 2024

Summary

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This infrastructure project involves decommissioning the existing wastewater treatment plant and constructing a new pumping station. Works include a new pump sump, stormwater holding tank, odour control facilities, a new access road, and rising main pipelines.

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Official record

Development description

The development involves the conversion of the existing killeens wastewater treatment plant to a pumping station, with wastewater pumped away to the cork city drainage network. The development will consist of: decommissioning of existing infrastructure at the wastewater treatment plant site, including the inlet works, stormwater holding tank, primary settlement tank, rotating biological contactors (2 no. ), sand filter, sludge holding tank, final clarifiers (2 no. ), outlet meter chamber, balancing tank, new infrastructure on the current wastewater treatment plant site associated with its intended use as a pumping station, including pump sump and valve chamber, flowmeter chamber, motor control centre (mcc) kiosk, new stormwater holding tank, odour control chemical storage tank and dosing plant, new access road and entrance gate on the eastern boundary of the site, post and rail fencing/screen planting/entrance gate/farm gates along the new access road. Use of the existing entrance off the n20 will be discontinued. Rising main pipeline through gleann iris estate and along rathpeacon road, with a passive odour contol unit at the high point on the rising main, and a gravity sewer pipeline from that high point to a connection point on the public sewer at northpoint business park. New ground mounted solar photovoltaic (pv) panels together with mounting structures and inverters biodiversity enhancement including planting of native woodland on part of the discontinued site access road off the n20, amenity grassland, removal of existing leylandii trees along north-eastern site boundary and replacement with native planting. Site development including landscaped and hard standing areas, internal roads on the wastewater treatment plant site.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

City HinterlandRU

“To protect and improve rural amenity and provide for the development of agriculture.”

National zoning type: Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
2 Lios Cara Drive, Killeens, Blarney	Feb 2025	€356,000	176 m
56 Seanabothair, Killeens, Cork	Jan 2025	€277,000	227 m
51 Seanabothair, Killeens, Cork	Dec 2025	€342,500	230 m
57 Seanabother, Killeens, Cork	Oct 2025	€200,000	231 m
65 Seanabothair, Rathpeacon, Cork	May 2025	€390,000	265 m
15 Seanabothair, Killeens, Cork	Mar 2025	€320,000	434 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

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Application received15 August 2024
Decision due9 October 2024
Decision issued9 October 2024
Grant issued18 November 2024

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