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Meath County Council · RA170887

Piercetown Cradockstown & Ballymagillin, Dunboyne, Co. Meath

Approved in Oct 2017. Built and signed off.

  1. 1 Aug 2017Received
  2. 14 Sept 2017Conditional
  3. 19 Oct 2017Final approval
  4. 6 Nov 2017Building started
  5. 22 Jun 2020Signed off
Status
Building started
Decision
Conditional · 14 Sept 2017
Council
Meath County Council
Type
PERMISSION
Site
78 m²

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What’s proposed

revised design and configuration of previously permitted Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility, Planning Register Reference No. RA/161021 located at our site at Piercetown, Cradockstown and Ballymagillin Townlands, Dunboyne, County Meath. The proposed development includes: A revised design and configuration of the permitted facility to a three storey Biopharmaceutical Production Building sized 10,083 square metres in total and 25.3 metres high and related external plant and equipment including boiler stacks 26 metres high. A single storey Warehouse Facility sized 2,625 square metres in total and 17.3 metres high with roof mounted plant and equipment and associated docking and yard areas. A three storey laboratory and administration building sized 7,022 square metres and 25.3 metres high including roof mounted plant and equipment. Minor modifications to the recently constructed permanent staff, sustaining contractor and visitor car park for 362 cars and a temporary construction related car park for 500 cars. The temporary car park will be decommissioned upon completion of the facility. Ancillary site works include a bunded tank farm, water and waste water, pipe bridges, cooling towers, gas storage facilities, emergency generators, a waste recycling compound (15 metres wide by 30 metres long) and structures, items of plant and equipment and their associated yards, internal roads and services, fencing, exterior lighting, landscaping and landscape berms, and underground water attenuation tank and building mounted and ground mounted signage. Ancillary site buildings include a single storey sprinkler pump house sized 106 square metres and 6.2 metres high and associated tanks, a single storey waste water pump house sized 7 square metres and 3.2 metres high, a gas reducing station and compound, a covered bicycle facility for 100 bicycles and 3 no. flagpoles 15 metres high, 2 no. Waste Management/Storage buildings 243 square metres and 7.2m high each and a single storey bunded drum storage building sized 122 square metres and 6.2 metres high and a single storey waste water building sized 60 square metres and 6.2 metres high, a single storey covered walkway 180 metres long and 5 metres high joining the car park to the proposed facility and a new bus shelter at the site entrance. The proposed new works include a single storey security building sized 129 square metres and 5.2 metres high to the centre of the site and a single storey security ..../

Planning details

Reference
RA170887
Local authority
Meath County Council
Status
Commenced · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
Received
1 Aug 2017
Observations close
5 Sept 2017 (closed 3328 days ago)
Decision due
25 Sept 2017 · decided 14 Sept 2017
Decision
Conditional on 14 Sept 2017
Site area
78 m² from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure

Nearby 6 · 500 m · 5 years

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Building started

  • 6 Nov 2017 · Builder told the council work was starting CN0033243MH

Zoning

C2.1 — Economic development and employment

Zoned for employment uses. Housing is not the intended use here.

Protections nearby 250 m

  • EPA-licensed facility · 1
    P1073
  • Recorded monument · 13
    Enclosure - large enclosure; Enclosure

Where this comes from

National planning feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51.

Source: National Planning Application Database · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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Summary

RA170887 is a planning application to Meath County Council for revised design and configuration of previously permitted Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, received on 1 Aug 2017; permission was granted with conditions on 14 Sept 2017.