GrantedIndustrialDecided 2 November 2023

(Monaghan Rd R183 Site), Moraghy, Castleblayney

Construction of a massive 38,356 sqm food production facility with an energy centre and solar array.

2340 · Monaghan County Council · Lodged 3 February 2023

Reference: 2340
Authority: Monaghan County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 3 February 2023

Summary

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This major development consists of a new food production facility on a 7.14-hectare site. It includes food preparation areas, offices over four floors, an energy centre, a wastewater treatment system, a 38KV substation, and a 1.2MW rooftop solar array.

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Storeys: 4
Floor area: 38,356 m²

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Official record

Development description

Permission to construct a new food production facility with a floor area of c. 38,356m² on a site extending to c. 7.14 hectares. The development includes the following; intake & storage, food prep areas including cooking, packing hall, parking and palletising, dispatch & cold storage, waste management, mezzanine floors, staff access corridors, office accommodation & staff facilities over 4 floors that includes canteen & roof garden, an energy centre building over 3 floors with internal refrigeration & mechanical plant rooms & external plant at roof level & a fully enclosed plant room to house a non-bio wwts. The facility will vary in height. It includes all internal site roadways, circulation & yard areas including hgvs loading & unloading areas, intake and dispatch yards & trailer parking areas, car & cycle parking, lpg/biogas refueling area & storage tanks for water, cooking oil, chemicals & gases related to the production activities, construction of underground attenuation drainage system, landscaping & boundary treatments includin fencing, esb substation 38kv, signage on the building & 4 x totem pole signs fronting on to the r183 monaghan rd, 1.2mw solar array at roof level, rainwater harvesting, waste storage area, pump house, site lighting, compressors & roof mounted air handling & communications equipment & antennae including alteration of site levels & stabilisation works including removal of rock and its replacement on site & the construction of retaining structures. The demolition of existing buildings & structures. It will include the repositioning & upgrading of an existing hgv access & a security building an associated traffic control entrance barriers & gates, a new non-hgv vehicular access for staff & visitors onto the r183 with associated access controls & dedicated pedestrian/cycle access. Works on the public road, including the provision of bus stop and lay-by on the south side of the r183 between the two vehicular entrances, alterations to road markings, provision of a footpath, cycle lane & public lighting along the south side of the r183, connecting the existing footpath to the east & other site works. A new foul water sewer & discharge manhole will be constructed along the r183 in an eastward direction connecting to the existing network points east of the application site. An eiar will accompany this application. Significant further information has been submitted

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Industry/Enterprise/EmploymentSI

“To provide for new industrial, enterprise and employment generating development and to facilitate the expansion of existing industrial and employment generating enterprises.”

National zoning type: Industrial, enterprise, employment

Objective set by the Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031 (2025–2031). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
62 The Crescent, Stonehaven, Blessington Roadprice excludes VAT	Nov 2025	€380,600	166 m
27 Crescent Hil, Castleblayney, Monaghan	May 2025	€145,326	210 m
26 The Crescent, Castleblayney, Monaghan	Jun 2025	€166,000	212 m
26 Crescent Hill, Shercock Rd, Castleblayney	Sept 2025	€143,000	215 m
55 Crescent Hill, Castleblayney, Monaghan	Dec 2025	€306,000	304 m
10 Crescent Hill, Castleblayney, Monaghan	Jun 2025	€310,000	329 m
2 The Crescent, Castleblayney, Monaghan	Oct 2025	€177,000	344 m
2 Crescent Hill, Castleblayney, Monaghan	Sept 2025	€160,000	354 m

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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 received3 February 2023
Further information requested29 March 2023
Further information received8 September 2023
Decision due2 November 2023
Decision issued2 November 2023
Grant issued6 December 2023
Permission expiry5 December 2028

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