20300Granted
Dromore West, Cootehill, Co Cavan
Permission for development to consist of proposed replacement of the existing Water Treatment Plant (WTP) with a new WTP all within the existing Abbott Ireland Cootehill facility. The proposed works will comprise (a) installation upon a concrete slab (2,140m²) of a proposed WTP building and associated tanks and equipment, to be located in a grass area between the existing main facility and the car park, to the south-east of the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) (b) construction of a 514m² gross floor area one-storey cavity block building with a building height of 6m, partially clad with insulated steel composite cladding panels, aluminium framed double-glazed windows, steel framed insulated steel doors, and a 4mx3.5 steel roller shutter door (c) installation within the concrete slab of a number of tanks and equipment external to the WTP building (d) installation within the proposed WTP Building of filtration equipment, staff welfare facilities, and a lab (e) new internal site waterpipe connecting proposed WTP to the main facility, and a temporary connection to the WWTP discharge lines to facilitate testing of the proposed plant during commissioning phase (f) installation of a new firewater ring main around the north of the existing facility building (g) a temporary construction compound to the north of the existing carpark, and other associated site works. The Abbott Cootehill site operates in compliance with a licence issued under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (as amended by the Protection of the Environment Act, 2003). An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report accompanies this application and will be available for inspection or purchase at the office of the Planning Authority.Decision record indexedDecision23 October 2020View record