Planning Permission Ireland
GrantedIndustrialDecided 18 December 2025

Unit 14B, Grant’s Way, Greenogue Business Park, Rathcoole, Co Dublin, D24 FV02

A new hazardous medical waste processing facility with 24/7 operations.

SD25A/0101W · South Dublin County Council · Lodged 29 April 2025

Reference
SD25A/0101W
Authority
South Dublin County Council
Register status
Decided
Type
Permission
Received
29 April 2025

Summary

AI-generated

The project involves changing the use of an existing building to hazardous medical waste processing, extending operating hours to 24/7, and demolishing outbuildings. It includes constructing a 966 sqm extension, a new 984 sqm building, a two-storey office building, and parking facilities, requiring an Industrial Emissions Licence.

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Development description

A new hazardous medical waste processing facility, including a change of use of the existing building (building b) on site from general waste disposal to hazardous medical waste processing, and the extension of the current operating hours to 24/7 the demolition/removal of the existing outbuildings/structures including 2 no. Storage units, an office and staff room canteen; the construction of an extension (c. 966 sqm) to the existing building c. 1,577 sqm on site (building b) and associated outbuildings including a new boiler house and storage areas; the construction of a new building (c. 984 sqm) to the northwest of the site (building a); the construction of a new 2 storey office building (c. 287 sqm) to the southeast of the site; provision of 26 no. Car parking spaces, 5 no. Truck parking spaces and 18 no. Bicycle stands (30 no. Spaces) to serve the proposed development; all ancillary landscaping, boundary treatments, associated infrastructure, internal roads, associated processing and treatment plant, weighbridges, pv panels, and site development works to support the development. The operation of the proposed development will require an industrial emissions licence (iel) from the environmental protection agency. A review of the existing iel relating to the site will be sought from the environmental protection agency in relation to the proposed development. An environmental impact assessment report (eiar) and natura impact statement (nis) will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application and the eiar and nis will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy at the offices of the planning authority.

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

EESI
“To provide for enterprise and employment related uses”

National zoning type: Industrial, enterprise, employment

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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Key dates

Timeline

  1. Application received29 April 2025
  2. Decision due2 January 2026
  3. Decision issued18 December 2025
  4. Permission expiry3 February 2031

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