Observation pack · Cork County Council

Boolymore, Rathcool, Mallow, Co. Cork

Permission to decommission existing septic tank and to install a new tertiary wastewater treatment unit and infiltration area

Observations close 1 Dec 2026 16 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 27 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 21 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 26/2779 · full record
Authority: Cork County Council
Type: Permission
Status: Awaiting Recommendation
Site area: 2,052 m²
Received: 27 Oct 2026
Decision due: 21 Dec 2026

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/2779.
Write your observation.Quote 26/2779 at the top, give your name and the address the authority should reply to, and confine it to planning matters — zoning objective, height, overlooking, traffic, drainage, heritage. What you say here is what you can later appeal on.
Pay the €20 fee.Every submission needs it; without it the observation is invalid and is returned. Cork County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 1 Dec 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Cork County Council. The test is the date the authority receives it, not the date you post it.
Keep the acknowledgement.The council's receipt is your proof of a valid observation — see below.

Statutory basis. Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) requires a planning authority to consider any submission or observation made to it in accordance with the Regulations. Article 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) sets the window: a submission or observation must be received by the authority within five weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the application, and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of €20. A submission received after the window, or without the fee, is invalid and the authority must return it.

After you submit: keep the acknowledgement. Under the 2024 Act it secures your right to appeal — only the applicant and a person who made a valid observation may bring the council's decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála, within four weeks of the decision. Making a valid observation is also what buys a right of appeal: under s.37(1) of the 2000 Act, only the applicant and a person who made a valid submission or observation to the planning authority may appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála (within four weeks of the decision). Missing the five-week window closes both doors.

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Distance	Description
26/0203	Grant with conditions	10 Jul 2026	310 m	Permission for the construction of a storage shed and all associated site works.
25/5600	Conditional permission	1 Dec 2025	93 m	Permission for decommissioning of milking parlour, dairy, and the conversion of milking parlour,dairy to 2 no. fodder sheds & the construction of new milking parlour, dairy, plant room, holding yard including underground slatted tanks, straw bedded calving sheds, circular feed bin, and removal of silage slab and laying of new silage slab and ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.
25/5411	Conditional permission	3 Nov 2025	94 m	Permission for retention of farm building for housing cattle and cattle crush and ancillary work
21/6049	Conditional	3 Mar 2022	92 m	To construct a new dwelling house.

What has happened on this file

27 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 1 Dec 2026

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