Planning precedent report

PERMISSION & RETENTION: Permission for development consisting of the construction of plant, comprising silos and blender, compressor room, cooling tank and pump room, storage, feed conveyors, retaining walls, new palisade fencing encompassing an increased site area, incorporating both a new vehicular sliding access gate, replacing the existing vehicular swing gates and the repositioning of the existing vehicular exit gate, creating a new vehicular entrance to the east of the site, revision of car park layout, together with associated site works. Retention permission is also sought for silos, office and laboratory together with permission for the demolition of structures, both permanent and temporary to include cooling tanks, compressor room, mill feed, silo and blender, retaining wall and palisade fencing and wall.

PERMISSION The development will consist of a 220kV underground cable measuring approximately 4.0m in length, from the Ringsend Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) plant permitted under application ref: PWSDZ3074/23 and the existing Irishtown 220kV substation, to facilitate electricity generated to be transferred to the national grid, and includes all associated works to facilitate the development.

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: permission for a single storey sorting building and canopy to the rear of the site of their construction and demolition recycling facility. The northern and western boundary walls of the premises are within the curtilage of a listed protected structure in the currently City Development Plan. The facility has a current waste licence ( WFP-DC-10-0020-01).

Permission for development on this site at the Ringsend Waste Water Treatment Plan, located on Pigeon House Road, Ringsend, Dublin 4. The proposed development consists of 2 no. units comprising a Combined Heat and Power Engine and Steam Generator unit with roof top plant areas; The Combined Heat and Power unit has gross floor area of approximately 30sq m, and a height of approximately 2.6 m. The rooftop plant area will have a height of approximately 3.2m giving an overall height of approximately 5.8m. The Steam Generator unit has a gross floor area of approximately 30 sq m, and a height of approximately 2.6 m; The rooftop plant area will have a height of approximately 3.2m giving an overall height of approximately 5.8m. All associated site works and utility connections.

Planning permission for development on a c. 3.5 ha site bounded by Shellybanks Road to the east and by South Bank Road to the south; being also to the south of the existing Dublin Bay Power Station, Pigeon House Road, Dublin 4, D04 Y5N2. The development will consist of: A 30 MW capacity battery energy storage system (BESS) facility within a secured compound and will include the following elements: (a) Up to 11 battery container unit arrangements comprising: (1) 6 Concrete plinths (c. 110 sq. m., c. 0.5 m high) typically supporting battery containers (c. 2.6 m high); air conditioning (A/C) unit (c. 1.8 m high); inverter unit (c. 3.8 m high); battery transformer unit (c. 3.3 m high); ring main unit (RMU) (c. 3.3 m high); (2) 5 Concrete plinths (c. 123 sq. m., c. 0.5 m high) typically supporting battery containers (c. 2.6 m high); air conditioning (A/C) unit (c. 1.8 m high); inverter unit (c. 3.8 m high); battery transformer unit (c. 3.3 m high); ring main unit (RMU) (c. 3.3 m high); (b) a c. 135 sq. m., c. 4.7 m high control building; (c) industrial/electrical plant including: (i) SCADA communications mast (c. 18 m high); (ii) c. 1,309 sq. m., c. 5.6 m high fenced transformer compound; (iii) VAR support unit on a concrete plinth (c. 24 sq. m., c. 3.4 m high); (iv) 4 lightning monopoles (c. 20 m high); (v) c. 19.8 sq. m., c. 3 m high bunded house transformer; (vi) cable trays and associated service connections; (vii) pole mounted security cameras (8.3 m high); (d) Removal of existing fencing and gates, and installation of: various boundary and internal fencing and gates with different treatments including palisade specification (c. 2.6 m high), chainlink specification (c. 2.7 m high), and wall mounted blunt top railing and gates (c. 2.6 m high); (e) ancillary site clearance and development works including provision of areas of hardstanding, internal access roads, onsite drainage and attenuation, temporary construction laydown areas; and (f) connections to site services networks including telecommunications, electrical, water supply, surface water drainage / attenuation, and ancillary cabling. These encompass connections within the aforementioned Dublin Bay Power Station (licenced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under an Industrial Emissions (IE) Licence [Ref. P0486-02] and a Lower Tier COMAH site and therefore falling under the requirements of the Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Regulations, 2015). Access will be from South Bank Road on the southern boundary and via the existing access to the east from Shellybanks Road. A minor part of the application – being a minor area of land identified for use as a temporary construction laydown area and for access, relates to development in the Poolbeg West Strategic Development Zone (SDZ). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) which complies with the European Union (Planning and Development) (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 296 of 2018) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The EIAR and NIS will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, during office hours at the offices of the planning authority. The application may also be viewed or downloaded on the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government’s EIA Portal located at http://housinggovie.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=d7d5a3d48f104ecbb206e7e5f84b71f1

PERMISSION The development will consist of: (i) demolition and removal of existing temporary reefer gantry (c. 6m in height; c. 1.5m wide, c. 23.8m long northern section and c. 13m long southern section); (ii) installation of a new steel frame reefer gantry (c. 7.26m in height; c. 2m wide; c. 24.3m long northern section and c. 13.5m long southern section) with associated reinforced concrete pad foundations; and (iii) all ancillary site development works.