To develop a motorway service area and rest area adjacent to Junction 12 of the M18 motorway…

Application details

Planning reference

20781

Council

Clare County Council

Proposal description

To develop a motorway service area and rest area adjacent to Junction 12 of the M18 motorway, which will include service station building with convenience shop, food court, staff facilities, canopy, fuel facilities, parking and circulation space, children's play area, picnic area and access provision. The development also includes infrastructural works public lighting, signage, landscaping, internal fencing, electrical substation, sixteen electric car charging points, roof mounted solar panels, storm water runoff, petrol interceptors and attenuation system, on-site wastewater treatment plant including access road, pumping station and connection to public foul sewer, drainage improvement works, underground fuel storage tanks, rain water harvesting system, connection to public water supply, underground storage tanks for fire-fighting purposes, underground rain water harvesting tanks, works to improve visibility at access point, upgrade to adjacent roundabout and ancillary works. The connection to the public sewerage system will be by means of a rising main to an existing public sewer. The rising main sewer will cross under the M18 motorway by directional drilling and thereafter underground via existing road margins/public road and under River Fergus and railway line through the townlands of Kilbreckan, Killow, Skehanagh, Clareabbey and Ballybeg. The inert soil from the directional drilling will be used in landscaping works on the site of the service station building. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

Location / address

Kilbreckan , Doora , Ennis

Application type

PERMISSION

Received / registered

23 Oct 2020

Council status

APPLICATION FINALISED

Council decision

CONDITIONAL

Council decision date

16 Dec 2020

Final grant date

1 Nov 2022

Appeal lodged

20 Jan 2021

Appeal decision

Grant permission with revised conditions

Appeal decision date

21 Oct 2022

Planning timeline

Key dated milestones from the council planning record and An Coimisiún Pleanála appeal records.

1. Application received

   23 Oct 2020

2. Decision: CONDITIONAL

   16 Dec 2020

3. Appeal lodged with An Coimisiún Pleanála

   20 Jan 2021Official An Coimisiún Pleanála dataView appeal case

4. Appeal decision: Grant permission with revised conditions

   21 Oct 2022Official An Coimisiún Pleanála dataView appeal case

5. Final grant

   1 Nov 2022