Ballysax, The Curragh, Co. Kildare.
Retention and expansion of an end-of-life vehicle storage and scrap metal recovery facility at The Curragh.
221366 · Kildare County Council · Lodged 16 November 2022
- Reference
- 221366
- Authority
- Kildare County Council
- Register status
- Invalid or incomplete
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 16 November 2022
Summary
AI-generatedThe application seeks permanent permission for a 3.47-hectare vehicle storage yard and retention of gravel hardcore, storage containers, and a depolluting building. It also requests permission to double the annual vehicle intake to 5,000, complete a workshop extension, and build a battery storage building.
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Official record
Development description
The development will consist of: (a) permanent permission for use of existing lands (3.47 ha) for the storage of elv’s (end of life vehicles). (b) retention permission for gravel hardcore of 0.667 ha of lands for storage of elv’s (end of life vehicles), 3 no. Steel storage containers on site, retention of existing depolluting building as constructed which consists of 4 no. Steel containers incorporated into the depolluting building, landscaped berms around perimeter of site as constructed. (c) permission to increase the annual intake of vehicles from 2500 vehicles to 5000 vehicles. (d) retention permission for the construction and completion of partially constructed extension to previously granted workshop building. (e) permission for the construction of a detached electric battery storage building. (f) permission for ancillary use on site for the reception, storage and recovery of scrap metal arising from elv’s namely ewc codes: 17 04 01 (copper, bronze, brass), 17 04 02 (aluminium), 17 04 03 (lead), 17 04 05 (iron and steel), 17 04 07 (mixed metals), 17 04 11 (cables other than those mentioned in 17 04 10), 16 01 03 (end-of-life tyres), 16 01 04 a (end-of-life vehicles less than 3.5 tonnes), 16 01 04 b (end-of-life vehicles greater than 3.5 tonnes), 16 01 06 (end-of-life vehicles, containing neither liquids nor other hazardous components, 16 01 07 (oil filters), 16 01 07 (explosive components – for example air bags), 16 01 12 (brake pads other than those mentioned in 16 01 11), 16 01 13 (brake fluids), 16 01 15 (anti-freeze fluids other than those mentioned in 16 01 14), 16 01 15 (tanks for liquified gas, 16 01 17 (ferrous metal), 16 01 18 (non-ferrous metal), 16 01 19 (plastic), 16 01 20 eow (glass including eow glass), 16 01 21 (hazardous components other than those mentioned in 16 01 07 to 16 01 11 and 16 01 13 and 16 01 14 (including a/c fluid r134a, r1234yf, r12 and r456a,16 01 22 (components not otherwise specified), 16 02 11 (non-household waste fridges and freezers and other devices containing hcfc, hfc, 16 02 16 (components removed from discarded equipment other than those mentioned in 16 02 15), 16 06 01 (lead batteries), 16 06 02 (nicd batteries), 16 06 03 (mercury containing batteries), 16 06 05 (other batteries and accumulators), 16 08 01 (spent catalysts containing gold, silver, rhenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium or platinum - except 16 08 07), 16 08 03 (spent catalysts containing transition metals or transition metal compounds not o
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- Application received16 November 2022
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