LIVE: Planning green light for massive facility in Tipperary

Tipperary County Council has given the planning green light for a massive sludge facility in Tipperary.

Hogan's Drain & Pipe Cleaning Ltd made the application to the local authority for the development at Derryville, Moyne, Thurles, county Tipperary. 

The project - now approved - will involve the "construction of an 1,800 sq.m sludge holding building of c. 60m in length, 30m in width and 13.5m in height".

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It will also "incorporate an open faced biofilter to be installed at the western end of the facility building, for the acceptance and temporary storage of up to 12,000 tonnes per annum of sludges produced from wastewater treatment".

The application also included the construction of internal site roads and parking; a 50 sq.m welfare/office facility of c. 10m in length, 5m in width and 5m in height as well as one surface mounted weighbridge; an electrical sub-station of c. 7.5m in length, 4.3 m in width and 3.2 m in height; underground holding tanks, infiltration areas and associated drainage pipework; pumphouse of c. 2.5m in width, 2.5 m in length and 2.8m in height; permeable and impermeable hardstanding; entrance gate and fencing and perimeter landscaping.

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An Environmental Impact Assessment Report was submitted as a part of this application.

The council attached eleven conditions to their decision.