There have been a number of industrial planning applications submitted to Laois County Council recently, the most high-profile of which are in Portlaoise and Camross.
Portlaoise Service Station
Portlaoise Service Station Limited have gone back to Laois County Council to altar their previously approved planning application for a major new service station at Downey’s on the Dublin Road in Portlaoise.
The development, if approved, will include the demolition of existing building and a relocation of the carwash, which will increase in size.
Kirby Engineering
The Kirby Engineering Group are currently seeking planning permission for a further development in Junction 17 Industrial Park, Togher, Portlaoise.
The group want to construct a 2976 square-metre light industrial unit to match their existing premises at Togher “in line and level.”
The development would also take in associated roads, carpark, and service yard, and a fully solar-panelled roof.
The proposed expansion would house similar operations to the company’s existing facility in the J17 Enterprise Park, with the fabrication of modular service supplied systems.
Breedon Ireland
Breedon Materials Limited, trading as Breedon Ireland, applied for an extension to their existing sand and gravel pit in Camross.
The proposed extension would consist of sand and gravel extraction (dry working) over an area of approximately eight hectares with processing and washing of material on site (closed loop water recycling system with associated silt storage lagoons of almost 2,000 square-metres).
Site facilities would include a mobile processing plant, portacabins, bunded fuel storage and refuelling pad with hydrocarbon interceptor, weighbridge, wheelwash, water supply borehole, perimeter berms, vegetation planting and fencing.
Access to the site will be via the existing sand and gravel pit.
The proposed extraction operational period is for ten years, plus one additional year to complete restoration of the site to agricultural lands
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