Planning application · Fingal County Council

Upgrading capacity at Wastewater Treatment facilities at Oldtown and Ballyboughal…

Oldtown and Ballyboughal wastewater treatment plants, the R129 regional road from Oldtown to Ballyboughal, and the county road from Grange junction to Lispopple. Townlands of Oldtown, Wyanstown, Leastown, Westpalstown, Murragh, Grange, Drishoge, Scatternagh and Lispopple, Fingal County Council

F25A/1198E · FingalClosed
Reference
F25A/1198E
Planning authority
Fingal County Council
Received
5 Jan 2026
Status
Closed
Application type
industrial
Use
Residential

Proposed development

Upgrading capacity at Wastewater Treatment facilities at Oldtown and Ballyboughal by reassigning use of the Wastewater Treatment Plants to wastewater pumping/storage facilities and forwarding their combined wastewater loads via development of new rising mains for treatment at Swords WWTP. Works include decommissioning of existing WWTPs, construction of below ground pumping stations with integrated stormwater tanks, chemical dosing units, conversion of oxidation ditches to washwater storage tanks, borehole water extraction chambers, ground affixed solar panels (36m2 each), installation of below ground pipework (90mm to 180mm ID) on 8.4kms of roadway and 300m of land, and creation of compensatory flood storage area at Ballyboughal WWTP.

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