GrantedIndustrialDecided 10 December 2019

Mullagharlin/Haynestown, Dundalk, Co Louth

Construction of a major pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Dundalk.

19861 · Louth County Council · Lodged 18 October 2019

Reference: 19861
Authority: Louth County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 18 October 2019
Residential units: 1
Floor area: 8789 m²

Summary

AI-generated

The development consists of a large integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing facility at the IDA Dundalk Science and Technology Park. It includes a three-storey manufacturing building, a four-storey administration and laboratory building, and support structures.

Industrialpharmaindustrialemployment

Storeys: 4

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

Permission for development of site at mullagharlin/haggardstown townlands, located on the ida ireland dundalk science and technology park. The overall site is accessed off the r215, the southern link road and is generally south and east of mullagharlin road, north of the marlbog road and generally north and west of the brookfield residential development. The proposed development consists of an integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing facility located directly north of wuxi biopharmaceutical campus currently under construction. The proposed development comprises of the following
A three storey pharmaceutical manufacturing facility sized approximately 15,520 square metres and approximately 26 metres high and with roof mounted plant and equipment and stacks
A four storey administration and laboratory building sized 8,789 square metres and approximately 22.5 metres high and with roof mounted plant and equipment and stacks
A two storey modular support laboratory sized approximately 820 square metres and approximately 10.1 metres high and with roof mounted plant and equipment and stacks
A single storey boiler unit area sized approximately 864 square metres and 9.6 metres high including two boiler stacks approximately 31 metres high. 5.4 no. Modular plant and equipment storage units sized approximately 35 square metres and 3 metres high per unit
A single storey drum store sized approximately 75 square metres and 6 metres high
A single storey waste store sized approximately 75 square metres and 6 metres high
Site works including car park for 278 cars, docking areas, yard areas housing external plant, tanks and equipment, a large landscaped berm to the north and west of the facility, a surface water attenuation pond, roads and underground services, external lighting, security fencing, fire water tanks and modular housing for pumps, 2 no. Vehicular entrances off the previously permitted internal road access currently under construction, bicycle shelters and facilities for e-car charging and disabled parking as well as all associated site works and landscaping. This application consists of development for an activity for which a licence under part iv of the environmental protection agency act 1992, is required. An eiar and natura impact statement accompany this application

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Business and TechnologyCOE

“To provide for office, research and development and high technology/high technology manufacturing type employment.”

National zoning type: Office, business/technology park and related

Objective set by the Louth County Development Plan (2021–2027). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

Read the zoning objectives in the development plan

Built & sold

What happened next

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

Built — construction complete

A commencement notice records works starting on 23 January 2020. A completion certificate was lodged on 15 January 2025.

Notified floor area: 15,520 m²

6 commencement notices are linked to this development.

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 received18 October 2019
Decision due12 December 2019
Decision issued10 December 2019
Grant issued20 January 2020
Permission expiry19 January 2025

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.