GrantedIndustrialDecided 28 October 2016

Piercetown Craddockstown and Ballymagillin Townlands, Dunboyne, County Meath

Construction of a large biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with multiple buildings.

RA161021 · Meath County Council · Lodged 20 September 2016

Reference: RA161021
Authority: Meath County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 20 September 2016

Summary

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A major biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility is proposed, featuring a two-storey production building, a warehouse facility, a utility building, and a three-storey laboratory and administration building. The project includes a permanent 496-space car park and will be built in phases.

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Storeys: 3
Floor area: 42,410 m²

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Development description

A biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility located at our site at piercetown, cradockstown and ballymagillin townlands, dunboyne, county meath, including the following:- a two storey biopharmaceutical production building sized 17,445 square metres in total and 19.5 metres high with roof mounted plant and equipment. This building will be built in 2 phases. Phase 1 is sized 13,989 square metres and phase 2 is sized 3,456 square metres. A two storey warehouse facility sized 8,517 square metres in total and 17.2 metres high with roof mounted plant and equipment and associated docking and yard areas. This building is to be built in 2 phases. Phase 1 is sized 7,627 square metres and phase 2 is sized 890 square metres. A single storey combined utility building sized 3,995 square metres and 10.4 metres high with internal mezzanines and with roof mounted plant and equipment including 8 no. Boiler stacks 22.5 metres high. A three storey laboratory and administration building sized 12,453 square metres and 22 metres high including roof mounted penthouse and plant and equipment. A permanent staff and visitor car park for 496 cars and a temporary construction related car park for 420 cars. The temporary car park will be decommissioned upon completion of the facility. A single storey link building sized 1,751 square metres and 12.4 metres high. Ancillary site works include a bunded tank farm, water and waste water and oil storage tanks, pipe bridges, cooling towers, gas storage facilities, emergency generators, a waste recycling compound and structure, items of plant and equipment and their associated yards, internal roads and services, fencing, exterior lighting, landscaping and landscape berms, surface water attenuation ponds and building mounted and ground mounted signage. Ancillary site buildings include a single storey sprinkler pump house sized 91 square metres and 6.2 metres high and associated tanks, a single storey electrical building sized 65 square metres and 6.2 metres high, a single storey waste water pump house sized 7 square metres and 3.2 metres high, a gas reducing station and compound, a covered bicycle facility for 100 bicycles and 3 no. Flagpoles 15 metres high, and a single storey bunded drum storage building sized 122 square metres and 6.2 metres high and a single storey waste water building sized 60 square metres and 6.2 metres high. Site access works including a new main truck and car entrance incorporating a ....

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

E2 - General Enterprise and EmploymentSI

“General Enterprise and Employment”

National zoning type: Industrial, enterprise, employment

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

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Key dates

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Application received20 September 2016
Decision due14 November 2016
Decision issued28 October 2016
Grant issued30 November 2016
Permission expiry29 November 2026

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