Observation pack · Meath County Council

Mayne , Clonee , Co. Meath

the development will consists of Retention Permission for the demolition of the former derelict commercial building and Planning Permission for the construction of one commercial warehouse building (approximately 490m²) for use as a light industrial assembly facility for the assembly of certified fire door systems, installation of 31 no. repurposed shipping containers for secure self-storage, security office, welfare facilities, new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, internal access roads, parking, sliding steel entrance gate, palisade fencing, stone boundary wall, landscaping and all associated site development works

Observations close 17 Nov 2026 16 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 13 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 7 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 2661272 · full record
Authority: Meath County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: PRE_VALIDATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 3,091 m²
Received: 13 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 21 Oct 2026, 02:10
Decision due: 7 Dec 2026
Decision: N/a

The national dataset truncates descriptions (80 characters for DLR, 70 for Fingal) and omits the applicant. The full description and the drawings are on the council register linked in step 1.

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at http://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661272/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2661272 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. Meath County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 17 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Meath 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.

What the site is zoned

Code	Objective	Plan	In force
P5 Rural and agricultural	RA - Rural Area: Rural Area	meath county development plan 2021 2027	3 Nov 2021 → 2 Nov 2027
P5 Rural and agricultural	RA - Rural Area: Rural Area	meath county development plan 2021 2027 as varied	3 Nov 2021 → 2 Nov 2027

An application that accords with the zoning objective is hard to resist on principle; one that does not may be a material contravention, which the council can only grant by the s.34(6) procedure with its own notice and window.

Source: Meath County Council development plan zoning · fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:04

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Meath County Council development plan zoning	—	4 Oct 2026, 23:04	open

Designations on or near the site

Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Distance	Description
2560360	Refused	27 May 2025	0 m	the development will consists5 of 1. Demolition of existing derelict office building 2. Construction of new warehouse 490 sq. m within the footprint of previous building. 3. Installation of 30 number shipping containers repurposed for storage facility with site office, toilet and associated site works
2460931	Conditional	14 Mar 2025	0 m	a Horse Arena, roofed horse walker, roofed manure pit and ancillary works (concrete yards, SUDS drainage system, Rainwater harvesting system etc;) using existing farm entrance
FW24A/0492E	Grant permission	23 Jan 2025	477 m	The proposal comprises the removal of conditions relating to previous
221269	Conditional	18 Nov 2022	330 m	the removal of the existing boundary chainlink/barbed wire fence and gate and replacing them with a new 2.4 metre high vertical plastic coated palisade fence, and gate. The erection inside the east boundary hedge of a new 2.4 metre high vertical plastic coated palisade fence, and gate, and associated site works

Appeals

No appeals within 500 m in the last 5 years.

What has happened on this file

13 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 17 Nov 2026
13 Oct 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 21 Oct 2026, 02:10. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Meath County Council before relying on it.