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To: Donna McEvoy – A/Executive Scientist
From: Martina McPhillips (Environment Section – Waste Team)
Re: 25/60309 Gallinagh Poultry Farms Ltd, Newgrove, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Consultants: CS Pringle (Dean Ryan – Architectural Tech.)
Permission: planning permission for the infilling of lands with imported inactive or inert waste
(app. 6220m³) to a maximum depth of 2.4m over 0.80Ha, accessed off existing
entrance, finished with topsoil and grassed over on completion, together with all
ancillary & associated site works.
Planner: Brian McGeary
Location: Newgrove, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Date: 17/09/2025
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Background
The application site is located on a Poor unproductive, except in local zones, aquifer in an area of
Extreme groundwater vulnerability. The development site is located within the Dromore SC_010
subcatchment which has been assigned Poor ecological status under the Water Framework Directive.
Pressures include Agriculture.
The total area of the site is 0.80 Ha, 1.97acres. The application has stated the total volume of fill to be
imported onto the site will be approximately 6,220m³, which converts to 9.33 Tonnes to a maximum
depth of 2.4m over the 0.80 Ha site. This activity will be subject to authorisation from Environmental
Services under the Waste Management Act (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007 as
amended.
Water Protection Plan Checklist submitted with the application.
Flood Risk Assessment Report has been submitted with the application. Based on the nature of the
development (infilling) and insufficient evaluation of how the development itself might affect
flooding in the local area, potentially increasing flood risk elsewhere. Page 5 of the assessment
indicated a WRAP value of 3. Clarification on determination of this value is needed. Furthermore, the
assessment does not account of the permeability of the infill material which may be of mixed origin.
The applicant has not outlined the proposed classes of activity or the type of material to be used for
the infilling of lands.
Planning ref 19409 applied for on this site in 2019 was refused on the grounds of The Office of Public
Works (OPW) Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment (PFRA) maps indicate that the eastern half of the
proposed site is vulnerable to pluvial flooding. The submitted Flood Risk Assessment notes that the
proposed development would result in the displacement of flood water storage capacity from the site
thus increasing flood risk beyond the site area.
Recommendation
I recommend the following further information:
a) Clarify the proposed classes of activity and type of materials to be used for the infilling of the
lands.
b) Revised flood risk assessment is required in order to demonstrate why the runoff risk index of
3 was chosen. The flood risk assessment must take into account the characteristics of the
imported subsoil which will impact on water storage and flood risk.
c) Revised topographical survey using Arc 3d modelling or similar in order to demonstrate
approximate available space in tonnages per cross section
Prepared By:
Date: 17/09/2025
Environment Technician
Approved Date: 17/09/2025
A/Executive Scientist