Newford , Athenry , County Galway
- 10 Jul 2024Received
- 18 Dec 2024Conditional
- 3 Feb 2025Final grant
- 2 Feb 2030Permission expires
- Status
- Granted with conditions
- Decision
- Conditional · 18 Dec 2024
- Council
- Galway County Council
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Site
- 30.61 ha
What’s proposed
for the amendments to planning permission reference 23/61035 which provides for a Medical Device Manufacturing Facility and all associated development. The proposed amendments to the permitted development are as follows: • Reduction in the floor area of the permitted medical device manufacturing facility to provide a building with a GIA of 29,588.5 m2 and associated amendments to building footprint and external envelope; • Reconfiguration of the Central Utilities Compound including reduction in the floor area of the MV building (Proposed GIA: 304.5 m2) and increase in the floor area of the Sprinkler Pumphouse (Proposed GIA: 151 m2); • Reduction of 21 no. car parking spaces in Car Park No. 2 to provide a total of 479 no. car parking spaces on the Campus; • Reconfiguration of the 102 no. EV car parking spaces throughout the car parking areas; • Amendment to the alignment of the internal HGV road; • Provision of bus lane on the main vehicular access road with associated amendments to landscaping and drainage; • Provision of 2 no. bus shelters to the east of Car Park 2; • Amendment to the extent of roof mounted solar PV panels and plant equipment on the roof of the manufacturing facility; • Amendment to surface water drainage infrastructure, including the Attenuation pond & SuDs Basin; • Amendment to the permitted access roads, landscaping, boundary treatments, internal pedestrian connectivity infrastructure, public lighting and all other site development works and services ancillary to the proposed amendments. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 330,044 sqm
2460861 is a planning application to Galway County Council for for the amendments to planning permission reference 23/61035 which provides for a, received on 10 Jul 2024; permission was granted with conditions on 18 Dec 2024.
Planning details
- Reference
- 2460861
- Local authority
- Galway County Council
- Status
- Granted with conditions · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
- Received
- 10 Jul 2024
- Observations close
- 14 Aug 2024 (closed 767 days ago)
- Decision due
- 18 Dec 2024 · decided 18 Dec 2024
- Decision
- Conditional on 18 Dec 2024
- Proposed development
- for the amendments to planning permission reference 23/61035 which provides for a Medical Device Manufacturing Facility and all associated development. The proposed amendments to the permitted development are as follows: • Reduction in the floor area of the permitted medical device manufacturing facility to provide a building with a GIA of 29,588.5 m2 and associated amendments to building footprint and external envelope; • Reconfiguration of the Central Utilities Compound including reduction in the floor area of the MV building (Proposed GIA: 304.5 m2) and increase in the floor area of the Sprinkler Pumphouse (Proposed GIA: 151 m2); • Reduction of 21 no. car parking spaces in Car Park No. 2 to provide a total of 479 no. car parking spaces on the Campus; • Reconfiguration of the 102 no. EV car parking spaces throughout the car parking areas; • Amendment to the alignment of the internal HGV road; • Provision of bus lane on the main vehicular access road with associated amendments to landscaping and drainage; • Provision of 2 no. bus shelters to the east of Car Park 2; • Amendment to the extent of roof mounted solar PV panels and plant equipment on the roof of the manufacturing facility; • Amendment to surface water drainage infrastructure, including the Attenuation pond & SuDs Basin; • Amendment to the permitted access roads, landscaping, boundary treatments, internal pedestrian connectivity infrastructure, public lighting and all other site development works and services ancillary to the proposed amendments. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 330,044 sqmAs published by the register.
- Site area
- 30.61 ha from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
- Applicant
- Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register
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Appeal
Not appealed.
Commencement
No commencement notice matched to this reference.
Zoning at the site
No zoning objective covers this site in the current plan.
Designations within 250 m
No OPW flood extent nearby.
No other designation nearby.
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44 (store id 364720). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here. Council register: http://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460861/0.
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