Core Refusal Reason
The proposal involves the infilling of a designated wetland area and lacks sufficient technical evidence regarding ecological impact, flood risk mitigation, and traffic safety visibility.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The development is located on a site identified as a wetland, and the applicant failed to provide a required Ecological and Hydro-morphological Impact Assessment to demonstrate that the infilling would result in no net loss to ecology or carbon storage.
- The application fails to demonstrate that the required visibility splays of 2.4m x 70m are achievable at the site entrance, posing a significant risk to road safety on the local tertiary road.
- Further clarification is required regarding the origin of the 31,000 tonnes of fill material, the necessary waste authorizations, and the technical adequacy of proposed flood mitigation measures involving drain widening.
Cited Policies (CDP)
Policy APP1Section 15.30Section 6.14Policy WP 1-3Policy WLP 1Policy WLP 2Policy RCP3Section 15.16.1Policy RAS 1Section 15.27.1Policy FLP1-3Section 15.34
Decision Document Summary
Richard Graham sought permission to import approximately 31,000 tonnes of soil to raise ground levels on a 0.99-hectare site at Drumcaw, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan. The site is a low-lying rural area identified as a wetland and is prone to pluvial flooding. The Planning Authority found the application deficient as it lacked a mandatory Ecological Impact Assessment for the wetland habitat, failed to prove that safe road access visibility could be achieved, and required more detail on flood storage an...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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