Planning Permission Ireland
GrantedIndustrialDecided 14 September 2017

Piercetown Cradockstown & Ballymagillin, Dunboyne, Co. Meath

Revised design for a biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Dunboyne, including production, warehouse, and laboratory buildings.

RA170887 · Meath County Council · Lodged 1 August 2017

Reference
RA170887
Authority
Meath County Council
Register status
Decided
Type
PERMISSION
Received
1 August 2017

Summary

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The proposal modifies a previously permitted facility to feature a three-storey production building of 10,083 square metres, a single-storey warehouse of 2,625 square metres, and a three-storey laboratory and administration building of 7,022 square metres. It also includes parking modifications and ancillary site works.

Industrialbiotechpharmaindustrial
Storeys
3
Floor area
19,730 m²

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Official record

Development description

Revised design and configuration of previously permitted biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, planning register reference no. Ra/161021 located at our site at piercetown, cradockstown and ballymagillin townlands, dunboyne, county meath. The proposed development includes: a revised design and configuration of the permitted facility to a three storey biopharmaceutical production building sized 10,083 square metres in total and 25.3 metres high and related external plant and equipment including boiler stacks 26 metres high. A single storey warehouse facility sized 2,625 square metres in total and 17.3 metres high with roof mounted plant and equipment and associated docking and yard areas. A three storey laboratory and administration building sized 7,022 square metres and 25.3 metres high including roof mounted plant and equipment. Minor modifications to the recently constructed permanent staff, sustaining contractor and visitor car park for 362 cars and a temporary construction related car park for 500 cars. The temporary car park will be decommissioned upon completion of the facility. Ancillary site works include a bunded tank farm, water and waste water, pipe bridges, cooling towers, gas storage facilities, emergency generators, a waste recycling compound (15 metres wide by 30 metres long) and structures, items of plant and equipment and their associated yards, internal roads and services, fencing, exterior lighting, landscaping and landscape berms, and underground water attenuation tank and building mounted and ground mounted signage. Ancillary site buildings include a single storey sprinkler pump house sized 106 square metres and 6.2 metres high and associated tanks, 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, 2 no. Waste management/storage buildings 243 square metres and 7.2m high each 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, a single storey covered walkway 180 metres long and 5 metres high joining the car park to the proposed facility and a new bus shelter at the site entrance. The proposed new works include a single storey security building sized 129 square metres and 5.2 metres high to the centre of the site and a single storey security .... /

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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  1. Application received1 August 2017
  2. Decision due25 September 2017
  3. Decision issued14 September 2017
  4. Grant issued19 October 2017
  5. Permission expiry18 October 2022

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