Planning Matters

It looks like the Quinn Energy application to the EPA for an IPPC license for the operation of the proposed power plant at Toomes is once again deferred, this time up until 29th of May 2009. However persons wishing to make a submission should make it as soon as possible to the EPA.

The quarry at Bush in Cooley County Louth (Dundalk Quarry Products Ltd.) has applied to massively extend the quarry, the planning reference is 09/96 and is currently being considered by the County Council.














Quarry at Bush, Cooley.

Another application with significant consequences for Louth's environment is application reference 09/22 - this application describes "Permission for dumping and spreading of soil and stone waste for the benefit of agricultural activity and all associated site works at Stonetown Lower and Redbog, Dundalk, Co. Louth." The County Council kicked this application back for further information. The applicant was requested to provide a Biodiversity Impact Assessment and to investigate possible archaeological artifacts in the area.



















Lower Stonetown and Red Bog, the area can clearly be seen as high quality from the aerial shot with superimposed OS map.

Another application sent for Further Information, this time in the south of the county along the banks of the Boyne, is 08154 (Drogheda Borough). This application proposes to develop a high quality ecological area along the north banks of the Boyne to the west of Drogheda. It is currently unclear when a decision will be made on this one...