The use of a part existing quarry site as a Materials Recovery Facility at Graney West, Co.Kildare.

Application details

Planning reference

1839

Council

Kildare County Council

Proposal description

The use of a part existing quarry site as a Materials Recovery Facility at Graney West, Co.Kildare. The subject site will be ca. 7.33 hectares in size. The principal development activity will involve the use of subsoil and overburden, sourced from construction, renovation and demolition sites to backfill and restore an existing void onsite created by past extraction of materials. The footprint of proposed area to backfill is 1.84 hecatres in size. The proposed quantity of such material to be accepted and infilled would be less than ca. 17,500 tonnes per annum and overall is expected to be ca. 100,000 tonnes throughout the operational phase of the proposed activity. The waste activity will be for the purposes of recovering said materials through land deposition and to achieve the improvement and development of land and site restoration. In addition to the principal waste activity described above, it is proposed to carry out the following waste recovery activities: Intake of top-soil, screening at proposed screening plant and resale of such material. Intake of gravel and sands, washing at existing washing plant and resale of such materials. Intake of concrete, concrete crushing using concrete crushing equipment, mixing with sand and gravel before being fed to the washing plant to form aggregate and resale of such material and; Intake of garden waste, shredding and composting of this waste for agricultural land spreading. In all, less than 25,000 tonnes of waste materials will be accepted on-site for recovery per annum. A waste facility permit will ne obtained for site activities as they will fall under the scope if the waste management (facility permit & registration) regulations as amended

Location / address

Graney West, Co.Kildare

Application type

PERMISSION

Received / registered

16 Jan 2018