Mullagharlin/Haynestown Townlands, Dundalk, Co Louth

What’s proposed

Permission for revision and reconfiguration to the existing Planning Permission (Reg. Ref. No. 19/861) necessitated by a strategic, phased approach to construction of the permitted development envelope. The proposed development comprises: (1) A three storey biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility (sized approximately 10,275 square metres) with four storey administration and laboratory building (sized approximately 5,754 squre metres) all approximately 25 metres high and with roof mounted plant and equipment and stacks. (2) A single storey canteen with pedestrian link sized approximately 600 square metres and approximately 6.0 metres high. (3) Modifications will include revised and reconfigured internal layouts and elevations necessitated by the proposed strategic phased approach. (4) Relocation of 4 no. modular plant and equipment storage units sized approximately 45 square metres and 5 metres high per unit. (5) Relocation of 1 no. single storey drum store sized approximately 50 square metres and 6 metres high. (6) Relocation of 1 no. single storey waste store sized approximately 40 square metres and 5 metres high. (7) A new single storey electrical/transformer room approximately 100 square metres and 5 metres high. (8) A relocated single storey water pump house 140 square metres 6metres high with sprinkler tank 8 metres diameter 14 metres high and city water tank 10 metres diameter 15 metres high. (9) Siteworks including car park for 204 cars, docking areas, yard areas housing external plant, tanks and equipment, a large landscaped berm to the north and west of the facility, a surface water attenuation pond, roads and underground services, external lighting, security fencing, 2 no. vehicular entrances off the previously permitted internal road access currently under construction, bicycle shelters and facilities for E-car charging and disabled parking as well as all associated site works and landscaping. This application consists of a variation to a previously permitted development for an activity for which a licence under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (as amended by the Protection of the Environment Act, 2003) is required. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) accompanies this application