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Planning Report
To: Planning Department Reference: Ref MCC 25/60353
Cathal McGlone
From: Roisin Moore, Roads
Subject: Planning Application Report – N2
Clontibret to Border Road Scheme
Date: 23/9/2025
Following a review of the planning documents submitted, please note the following comment in relation to
the N2 Clontibret to Border Road Scheme;
Monaghan County Council has been working in association with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to
develop a scheme to upgrade a 28km section of the N2/A5 Dublin-Derry Road. This project is called the N2
Clontibret to Border Road Scheme. This is an important project to enhance key North/South and Regional
connectivity and to improve road safety.
Monaghan County Council appointed Jacobs Consulting Engineers (Jacobs) in 2018 to advance the project
through the planning and design process. Westmeath National Roads Office are assisting Monaghan County
Council in delivering this scheme. A Preferred Route Corridor has been selected for the scheme, and the
proposed application is within the study area for this corridor.
No funding was received to progress the scheme in 2022, and the project was suspended until November
2023, when EU funding was secured and the design of the project recommenced. The current design process
will design the new road, sideroads, junctions, landtake and ancillary works required to deliver the project.
Variation No. 1 to the Monaghan County Development Plan 2019 – 2025 provides protection to the Preferred
Route Corridor in policy NRP 7; “To protect the selected route of the N2 upgrade road scheme between Ardee
and Castleblayney and the selected route between Clontibret and the border with Northern Ireland, and to
prohibit development that could prejudice their future delivery.” The Monaghan County Development Plan
2025-2031 contains a similar policy.
The application has been referred to Jacobs and to Westmeath National Roads Office. There is no objection
in relation to the impact of this development on the N2 Clontibret to Border Road Scheme. The proposed
road scheme should be brought to the attention of the applicant, and it should be a planning condition that
the applicant is required to provide any noise or screening mitigation that may be required or desirable as a
result of the N2 Clontibret to Border Road Scheme, and it should be recorded that the road scheme will not
make any specific provision to mitigate the impact of the upgraded road on this new development.
Roisin Moore (Nic An Iarla)
Project Liaison Officer
N2 Ardee to Castleblayney / N2 Clontibret to Border Road Schemes
Monaghan County Council
086 8255103
Email: rmoore@monaghancoco.ie