Curragha Water Treatment Plant , Knavinstown Curragha , County Meath.
- 17 Apr 2026Received
- 22 May 2026Observations closed
- Status
- With the council, no decision yet
- Decision
- Not yet
- Council
- Meath County Council
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Site
- 964 m²
What’s proposed
the development will consists of: • A 10-year planning permission for an operational life of 30 years. • Construction of a new building (9.5m x 8.5m) replacing the existing building which would be demolished (6m x 4.2m). This new building will have 3 separate compartments: chemical dosing, MCC and filtration room. In the Chemical dosing room, a 1200l chemical dosing tank will be installed in bund with within the room .2No. dosing pumps will be installed in a dosing cabinet, within the chemical dosing room. The filtration system will consist of 4 pressure filters to be installed, with its associated pipework, 2 pumps, 2 blowers and a compressor; • 2No. new pre oxidisation contact tanks (12.73m³ each) will be installed in the existing building, which is currently the filter building. The existing 2No, pressure filters in the building will be replaced by the new proposed contact tanks; • A new backwash holding tank (15.9m³) will be installed onsite to replace the existing tank but will be on a different location within the site; • The filtration process produce residual water (dirty wash water) in the process of backwashing. This water will undergo treatment (settlement and separation) before being discharged into the environment. 1 No. Equalisation precast tank (23m³), 1No. Settlement tanks (7m³) and 1 No. Sludge tank (4.75m³) will be installed within the site layout; • Demolition of existing welfare and building (To be replaced by new filter building) and holding tank on site; • Increasing boreholes output from 35m³/hr to 49m³/hr; and • Installation of new underground pipework from the boreholes onsite to the new filter building and to the residual treatment tanks. New pipework to be connected to the existing mains pipework. • Construction of hammerhead road to allow for vehicle turning for delivery trucks, improvement of site entrance, all associated ancillary works and any required landscaping
2660428 is a planning application to Meath County Council for the development will consists of: • A 10-year planning permission for an operational, received on 17 Apr 2026; no decision has been recorded yet.
Planning details
- Reference
- 2660428
- Local authority
- Meath County Council
- Status
- With the council, no decision yet · register status “FURTHER INFORMATION”
- Received
- 17 Apr 2026
- Observations close
- 22 May 2026 (closed 115 days ago)
- Decision due
- No due date published
- Decision
- Not decided
- Proposed development
- the development will consists of: • A 10-year planning permission for an operational life of 30 years. • Construction of a new building (9.5m x 8.5m) replacing the existing building which would be demolished (6m x 4.2m). This new building will have 3 separate compartments: chemical dosing, MCC and filtration room. In the Chemical dosing room, a 1200l chemical dosing tank will be installed in bund with within the room .2No. dosing pumps will be installed in a dosing cabinet, within the chemical dosing room. The filtration system will consist of 4 pressure filters to be installed, with its associated pipework, 2 pumps, 2 blowers and a compressor; • 2No. new pre oxidisation contact tanks (12.73m³ each) will be installed in the existing building, which is currently the filter building. The existing 2No, pressure filters in the building will be replaced by the new proposed contact tanks; • A new backwash holding tank (15.9m³) will be installed onsite to replace the existing tank but will be on a different location within the site; • The filtration process produce residual water (dirty wash water) in the process of backwashing. This water will undergo treatment (settlement and separation) before being discharged into the environment. 1 No. Equalisation precast tank (23m³), 1No. Settlement tanks (7m³) and 1 No. Sludge tank (4.75m³) will be installed within the site layout; • Demolition of existing welfare and building (To be replaced by new filter building) and holding tank on site; • Increasing boreholes output from 35m³/hr to 49m³/hr; and • Installation of new underground pipework from the boreholes onsite to the new filter building and to the residual treatment tanks. New pipework to be connected to the existing mains pipework. • Construction of hammerhead road to allow for vehicle turning for delivery trucks, improvement of site entrance, all associated ancillary works and any required landscapingAs published by the register.
- Site area
- 964 m² from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
- Applicant
- Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register
Full planning report for 53.54151, -6.44180
Zoning, appeals, sold prices, flood and heritage constraints — everything for this area in one PDF.
No account, no payment. Not a statutory planning search.
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
OPW flood extent nearby — flag only (licence); floodinfo.ie.
- Radon risk area · 3
- Recorded monument · 5
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 146369). 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/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660428/0.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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