Planning Permission Ireland
GrantedInfrastructureDecided 16 May 2017

Ballymote Wastewater Treatment Plant, Woodfield/Tieveboy, Ballymote

Upgrading of the Ballymote Wastewater Treatment Plant including a new administration building and settlement tanks.

17113 · Sligo County Council · Lodged 27 March 2017

Reference
17113
Authority
Sligo County Council
Register status
Decided
Type
PERMISSION
Received
27 March 2017

Summary

AI-generated

The project involves upgrading the Ballymote Wastewater Treatment Plant. Works will include erecting a 41 square meter single-storey administration building, constructing a final settlement tank, raising the walls of an existing tank, creating a utility yard, and removing existing sludge drying beds.

Infrastructureinfrastructurewastewaterutility
Storey
1
Floor area
41 m²

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Official record

Development description

Development consisting of the upgrading of the ballymote wastewater treatment plant and will generally comprise of the following; erection of single-storey administration and control building (c. 41m2); construction of a final settlement tank with associated rotating bridge scrapper; increasing side wall height of existing final settlement tank; proposed utility yard area comprising associated equipment including screens, grit removers, pumping station and odour control; construction of a stormwater holding tank and all ancillary site development works including hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatments; removal of existing sludge drying beds and removal of existing inlet screen and chamber

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

GB – green beltHA
Objective: Contain and consolidate settlements, while safeguarding lands for their future expansion and for the provision of strategic infrastructure. Green belts are to be used principally for agriculture. Any new development, such as roads and buildin

National zoning type: Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape

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within 500 m
Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
AddressDatePriceDistance
Woodfield, Ballymote, SligoOct 2025€50,000352 m

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Key dates

Timeline

  1. Application received27 March 2017
  2. Decision due21 May 2017
  3. Decision issued16 May 2017
  4. Grant issued16 June 2017
  5. Permission expiry15 June 2022

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