GrantedDecided 28 October 2025Longford County Council

Ballymahon (Townland), Co. Longford

Planning application 2560086
DecisionConditional grant
Decided28 October 2025
Application typePERMISSION
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Application description published by Longford County Council.
10-year planning permission for proposed upgrade works and extension to the Ballymahon Wastewater Treatment Plant (WwTP) and local wastewater network. The proposed development comprises: (1) the refurbishment of existing final settlement tank, storm water tank, Return-Activated Sludge (RAS) and Waste-Activated Sludge (WAS) pumping station and 2 no. existing aeration tanks within the existing WwTP site; (2) an extension to the WwTP to include new inlet works with duty / standby combined screens and grit plant, odour control system, high-level emergency overflow chamber, Flow to Full Treatment (FFT) storm pumping station, stormwater storage tank, biological process units including 1 no. selector tank, 2 no. anoxic tanks, and 2 no. aeration tanks, 2 no. final settlement tanks with flow split chamber; (3) a new section of gravity sewer from the network pumping station serving Auburn Village residential estate to the new inlet works; (4) a new RAS / WAS pumping station with sludge holding capacity; sludge drying reedbeds (8 no. cells), return liquors pumping station, washwater pumping station, new chemical dosing plant, treated effluent outfall headwall to River Inny; (5) alterations to the existing entrance and a new internal road connecting the existing internal access road to the extension area; (6) surface water drainage interceptor, manholes and surface water attenuation tank; (7) ESB sub-station building, permanent generator and fuel tank, solar panels on block mounted frames; (8) decommissioning of picket fence thickener and associated dewatering equipment, ferric dosing tank, final effluent outfall chamber, complete with automatic sampler, and a redundant section of existing sewer network in the Auburn Village residential estate (all to remain in situ post decommissioning); (9) the decommissioning / removal of the existing inlet works and grit removal chamber; (10) decommissioning / demolition of pumping station in the Auburn Village residential estate; (11) site lighting (both task lighting and road lighting), boundary fencing and treatments including landscaping; (12) below ground interconnecting pipework; (13) and all ancillary site development and site excavation works above and below ground for the above referenced development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

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