GrantedEnergyDecided 23 September 2019

GLENMORE ESTATE, AGHAVEAGH, BALLYBOFEY

Major development works at the Glenmore Biogas Plant in Ballybofey to process alternative feedstocks.

1950042 · Donegal County Council · Lodged 21 January 2019

Reference: 1950042
Authority: Donegal County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 21 January 2019

Summary

AI-generated

The project involves significant extensions to the existing biogas plant, including a feedstock reception building extension, gas purification plant, and office extension. It also includes expanding the northern boundary to accommodate three new digester vessels, three hydrolysis tanks, and a fertiliser plant.

Energybiogasrenewable energyindustrial

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

Development works at the glenmore biogas plant, which shall process alternative feedstocks and produce renewable energy and fertiliser. The development will be accessed via the existing internal connecting access road within glenmore estate which links the site to the r253. The works involve: (1) development within curtilage of the existing biogas plant involving (a) the construction/ provision of an extension to the existing feedstock (waste) reception building to accommodate feedstock reception activities and digestate processing equipment, (b) gas purification and compression plant, (c) office extension (first floor open plan) , and (d) externally located test tank; (2) extension to the northern boundary of the biogas plant to accommodate (a) internal access road from the existing biogas site, (b) concrete retention bund, (c) 3 no. Digesters vessels with collection domes, (d) 3 no. Hydrolysis tank with collection covers, (e) pump houses (2 no. ) and associated process pipework, and (f) stormwater attenuation tank, petrol interceptor and associated pipework; (3) extension to the northern boundary of the biogas plant to accommodate a fertiliser plant, comprising (a) fertiliser processing building containing digestate processing equipment, storage areas and associated, externally located, odour control equipment/exhaust stack (17.5m in height), (b) liquid fertiliser storage tanks (6 no. ), (c) hgv parking, (d) all process pipework and associated drainage works, and (e) associated site works including fencing and landscape screening. The planning application is accompanied by an environmental impact assessment report (eiar) and a natura impact statement (nis) and relates to development which comprises an activity requiring an industrial emissions licence from the envirionmental protection agency (epa)

Built & sold

What happened next

Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.

Recent sales nearby

within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
Glenmore Cottage, Glenmore, Ballybofey	Nov 2025	€65,000	387 m
The Rectory, Glenmore, Ballybofey	Nov 2025	€350,000	477 m

Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.

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 received21 January 2019
Further information requested15 March 2019
Further information received21 May 2019
Decision due23 September 2019
Decision issued23 September 2019
Appeal submitted18 October 2019
Appeal decided22 September 2021
Permission expiry21 September 2026

In the area

Applications near this site

Other planning applications within about 500 m — what else is being proposed or built nearby.

Related developments

Similar applications

Ranked by what these developments actually propose, not by matching words — so you can see how comparable applications were decided.

Community

Discussion

What local people think about this application.

Nobody watching yet

Community sentiment

No votes yet

Nobody has voted on this application yet.

Community sentiment — a straw poll of people who visited this page, not a statutory submission. To make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.

No comments yet. Be the first to say what you think about this application.

Comments are moderated and are the opinions of the people who wrote them. They form no part of the statutory planning process — to make a valid observation you must submit it to the planning authority.