Laharan West Boherbue Co Cork

What’s proposed

Permission for development which consist of upgrade works at the wastewater treatment plant (WwTP). The development will consist of the following: (1) Construction of new inlet works, new storm overflow and flow splitting chamber, new aeration tanks ,new settlement tanks, and cloth filter structure, new storm tank, new sludge drying reed beds, new outfall pipeline together with all associated tanks, chambers, pipelines, provision of new admin and welfare modular kiosk, upgrade to boundary treatment to include 2.4m high weld mesh fence, new internal access road, public lighting and all associated site developing works. (2) Construction of new Admin/Welfare modular building. (3) Decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment plant, equipment and associated structures as part of the upgrade works. (4) Construction of 150kW photovoltaic (PV) solar panels on ground mounted frames on the south-east area of the site. The grid connected PV panels will be arranged in 5 No rows with an overall panel area of 745sqm approximately. Provision of a kiosk/modular unit for associated electrical equipment. (5) All associated site development works above and below ground. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) accompanies this planning application