Planning Permission Ireland
Awaiting decisionChange of useDecided 24 July 2025

Dublin Weston Airport, Lucan, Co. Dublin

Proposed use of existing airport hangars for search and rescue helicopter operations.

ED25/0043 · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 15 July 2025

Reference
ED25/0043
Authority
South Dublin County Council
Register status
Decided
Type
Declaration of Exemption Section 5
Received
15 July 2025

Summary

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A Section 5 declaration of exemption is sought regarding the proposed use of existing hangars at Weston Airport to service and operate Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopters starting July 2025.

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According to weston airport aerodrome they propose using some of the existing hangers for the purpose of servicing and operating sar (search and rescure) helicopters from 1st of july 2025 this raises a number of questions: a. There is already a planning permission granted by sdcc reference sd23a/0324 in relation to the provision of this service from a different location within the aerodrome. B. As you should be aware this decision was appealed by myself and others to an bord pleanala and a decision is still awaited on this appeal c. Do the plans to operate a similar service from 1st july 2025 from the exiting hangers not require planning permission? D. Operating a sar facility means there will be night flying. I am not aware of any decision to permit such flights at this location e. Surely there must be conditions attached to this type of operation -flight paths etc. The airport is in close proximity to three major towns; celbridge, leixlip and lucan. And maynooth is no far away either. F. It interesting to note the intention of using the existing facilities to fun the sar operations from the existing buildings when one of the main arguments put forward in their planning application (sd23a/0324) was that it was not possible to do that.

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“To protect and improve rural amenity and to provide for the development of agriculture”

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  1. Application received15 July 2025
  2. Decision due5 August 2025
  3. Decision issued24 July 2025

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