Planning Permission Ireland
Awaiting decisionInfrastructureDecision was due 16 March 2026

Montpelier and Fairyhall, Limerick.

Construction of a raw water intake, pumping station, rising mains, and water treatment plant.

25323980 · Limerick County Council · Lodged 19 December 2025

Reference
25323980
Authority
Limerick County Council
Register status
In progress
Type
PERMISSION
Received
19 December 2025

Summary

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Permission is sought for a major water infrastructure project. It includes a raw water intake and pumping station, twin underground rising mains, and a water treatment plant with associated buildings, tanks, and access roads.

Infrastructurewater infrastructurepumping stationutility
Floor area
3,165 m²

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

  • Raw water intake & pumping station site (rwi&ps) which will consist of: a bankside intake chamber, raw water pumping station building, 2 no. Microfiltration buildings, electricity substation, (totalling 3,165m² gross floor area (gfa), maximum building height of 10.9m over finished ground level); 4 no. Surge vessels; associated below ground tanks; 670m access road from the r494; 16 no. Car parking spaces; telemetry mast (14.0m height); landscaping, lighting, and other ancillary above and below ground works; on a c. 4.1 ha permanent site at garrynatineel and kilmaglassderry, co. Tipperary, and associated re-profiling works to the parteen basin
  • Raw water rising mains (rwrm) which will consist of twin steel underground pipelines (each 1,500mm diameter) extending 2km from the pumping station at the rwi&ps site to the raw water balancing tanks at the head of the proposed water treatment plant, laid at a minimum depth of cover of 1.2m above crown of pipe
  • Water treatment plant site (wtp) which will consist of: 2 no. Raw water balancing tanks, 3 no. Water treatment module buildings, 2 no. Sludge dewatering buildings, 2 no. Sludge storage buildings, chemical dosing manifold building, chemical dosing building, high lift pumping station, an electricity substation, washwater settlement building, control and visitor building (totalling c. 53,300m² gfa, maximum building height of 15.6m over finished ground level); associated pumping stations, lagoons, attenuation pond, above and below ground tanks, 5 no. Surge vessels; 640m access road from the r445; 50 no. Car and 4 no. Coach parking spaces; telemetry mast (14.0m height); ground and roof mounted pv panels; landscaping, lighting, and other ancillary above and below ground structures and works; on a c. 31 ha permanent site at incha beg, knockadromin and greenhills, birdhill, co. Tipperary
  • A single 1,600mm diameter steel underground treated water pipeline (covering a distance of approximately 37km in county tipperary) extending in a generally north-eastern alignment between the proposed water treatment plant and the proposed break pressure tank, laid at a minimum depth of cover of 1.2m above crown of pipe
  • Break pressure tank (bpt) site which will consist of: a below ground covered break pressure tank (volume 13,776m3); control building (c. 800m² gfa, 7.5m height); 794m access road from the l1064; 10 no. Car parking spaces; telemetry mast (14.0m height); ground and roof mounted pv panels; bat

Key dates

Timeline

  1. Application received19 December 2025
  2. Decision due16 March 2026

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