Weston Airport, Backweston, Lucan, Co. Dublin
Installation of visual navigation aids and taxiway widening at Weston Airport.
ED24/0009 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 23 February 2024
- Reference
- ED24/0009
- Authority
- South Dublin County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- Declaration of Exemption Section 5
- Received
- 23 February 2024
Summary
AI-generatedThe application seeks a declaration of exemption for installing a system of visual aids to navigation, including an aeronautical beacon, various runway and taxiway lights, and apron floodlighting. It also includes standardising the width of straight taxiway sections to 11 metres.
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Official record
Development description
The installation of a system of 'visual aids to navigation', including all associated electrical ducting, an aeronautical beacon, runway edge lights, runway lead-in lights, runway threshold identification lights, precision approach path indicators (papi's), runway end lights, stopway lights, runway guard lights, stop-bars, taxiway edge lights, apron floodlighting and wind-direction indicator (windcone) lights. The standardisation of the width of the straight sections of all taxiways to 11m (with wider than 11m for turns). (please refer to the cover letter enclosed within for a detailed description of the proposed development)
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“To protect and improve rural amenity and to provide for the development of agriculture”
Objective set by the South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028 (2022–2028). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.
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Timeline
- Application received23 February 2024
- Decision due21 March 2024
- Decision issued21 March 2024
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