GrantedIndustrialDecided 24 January 2024

CLARA ROAD (R420) BALLYDUFF, TULLAMORE, CO. OFFALY

Construction of a large sterilization technology facility on Clara Road, Tullamore.

2396 · Offaly County Council · Lodged 8 March 2023

Reference: 2396
Authority: Offaly County Council
Register status: Decided
Type: PERMISSION
Received: 8 March 2023

Summary

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The proposed development consists of a 6,726 square metre sterilization technology facility with a maximum roof height of 19.65 metres. The site will feature storage, process, and office areas, upgraded entrances, parking, and a cycleway.

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Floor area: 6,726 m²

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Official record

Development description

The construction of a sterilization technology facility, which will have a maximum roof height of 19.65 metres with a flue extending to 22.4 metres and a gross floor area of 6,726 sq m, comprising a storage (high bay and loading) area (3,731 sq m), process area (698 sq m), technology area (691 sq m), and ancillary offices and circulation (1,606 sq m). The development will also include: the repositioning and upgrade of the 2 no. Existing entrances to the site from clara road (r420) to provide a multimodal entrance with a staff entrance to the site and a dedicated truck entrance to the site; the provision of internal roads, footpaths and a bicycle path; 42 no. Car parking spaces (including ev and accessible parking spaces); a deliveries and loading yard with 8 no. Truck parking spaces (including ev parking spaces); loading dock accesses; dock levellers; an external canopy; maintenance parking; bicycle parking; an esb substation; plant; pv panels; lighting; boundary treatments; hard and soft landscaping; 3 no. Ground mounted flagpoles; signage; a segregated cycleway along the boundary of the subject site on clara road (r420); and all associated site and development works above and below ground. Permission for development at this c. 3.21 ha site fronting clara road (r420) ballyduff, tullamore, co. Offaly. The lands are generally bound to the north by properties fronting clara road (r420), to the north-east by clara road (r420), to the south by axis business park, and to the west by greenfield lands, with leah victoria park further west

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Business/Technology ParkSI

“This zoning facilitates opportunities for technology based industry and advanced manufacturing, compatible office space and research and development based employment within high quality, highly accessible, campus style settings.”

National zoning type: Industrial, enterprise, employment

Objective set by the Offaly 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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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
Muinagh, Ballyduff, Tullamroe	Apr 2025	€300,000	374 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

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Application received8 March 2023
Further information requested27 April 2023
Further information received3 August 2023
Decision due26 January 2024
Decision issued24 January 2024
Appeal submitted20 February 2024
Appeal decided14 May 2025
Permission expiry13 May 2030

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