Site planning risk brief

For an Open Cycle Gas Turbine power plant (299MW) and associated infrastructure and buildings. The proposed development will include: Demolition of existing administration building, gatehouse, workshop, storage buildings (3no.) and car parking area; Installation of an Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) unit and associated plant (Including air intake, stack (40m high); main, auxiliary and ancillary transformers; fire wall; acoustic wall; electrical rooms; finfan coolers; skids (to include gas skid, distillate fuel skid, compressor cleaning skid, air drier skid, compressed air skid, lube oil skid, CO2 fire fighting skid); propane store; Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS); fire water tank and pump house; hardstanding maintenance area]; Secondary fuel storage area [4 no. bunded distillate fuel storage tanks - each tank c. 20.2m high (incl. hand rail), 10m diameter]; Fuel forwarding building; Extension to existing distillate unloading plant [1 no. new pump house to be installed]; Fuel forwarding gantry; Expanded Above Ground Installation ('AGI') to facilitate connection to existing gas pipeline; A new 220 kV bay and 220kV bus section within the existing electricity substation; New administration building, gatehouse and associated car parking (2 no. spaces), workshop, storage buildings (3 no.) and car park (52 no. spaces); And all associated ancillary development, site works and services including fill, underground pipework and cabling, upgraded wastewater treatment plant, drainage infrastructure, lighting, fencing, internal roadways, vehicle and pedestrian access gates, vehicular ramp, entrance barrier, etc. The application relates to development for the purposes of an activity requiring a license from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Industrial Emissions Directive. It also relates to a Lower Tier COMAH establishment and therefore falls under the requirements of the Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Regulations, 2015. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

To extend workshop and to complete all associated site works. Permission is also sought to erect acoustic fencing along a section of the existing site boundary. The site is located within the confines of a Major Accident Site under the Seveso Directive. Gross floor space of proposed works: 600 sqm

To extend workshop and complete all associated site works. Permission is also sought to erect acoustic fencing along a section of the existing site boundary. Gross floor space of proposed works 600 sqm. The proposed site is located at Derryfrench, Tynagh, Co. Galway and is within the confines of a Major Accident Site as determined by the Seveso Directive.

For the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270 msq.

To construct a domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 42.2 sqm

To construct a two storey Dwelling House, sewage treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated services using existing approved access granted under Planning Permission Reference Numbers 99/4177 & 04/4709. Gross floor space of proposed works 270.3 sqm