Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2007
Direct Application to An Bord Pleanála by College Proteins in Respect of a Biomass Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant and associated ash landfill facility at College Road, Nobber, Co. Meath


College Proteins is seeking planning permission for the construction of a biomass Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant and associated ash landfill facility adjacent to the existing meat rendering plant (located in the townlands of College and Rathgillen) at College Road in Nobber, County Meath.

The application documentation files below are downloadable in pdf format.

Available Downloads

Update Notice (10th November 2010)
An Bord Pleanála issued a Request for Further Information (RFI) to College Proteins on the 18th June 2010, in relation to the Biomass CHP Plant Planning Application.

A response to this RFI was submitted to An Bord Pleanála on the 24th September 2010.  
An Bord Pleanála has decided that the response to the RFI is significant additional information.

In this regard, a copy of the RFI response documentation is now available for download below.

RFI Response Documentation Cover Letter   Appendices Appendix 1: RFI Appendix 2: Letter from ABP Appendix 3: Air Quality Appendix 4: Envirocon OMI Letters Appendix 5: Correspondence with Mr Horgan Appendix 6: Photomontages Appendix 7: Built Heritage Assessment Appendix 8: Landscape and Visual Addendum Appendix 9: Hydrogeological Assessment Appendix 10: LandfillReport   Typographical Error Letter to ABP Amended Figure 3 2 Amended Hydrogeological Table 3 3

Engineering Drawings 898-1-C01F 898-1-C02O 898-1-C03K 898-1-C04J 898-1-C05K 898-1-C10G 898-5-A02K 898-5-A06G 898-5-A07F 898-5-A08G 898-5-A09H 898-5-A10G 898-5-C11 Landscape & Visual Drawings 3547 Fig 03 3547 Fig 04   Plant Layout Drawings 898-1-D01 Plan Layout 898-1-D02 Plans and Sections 898-1-D03 Isometric Views

Update Notice (14th September 2009)
It recently came to the Applicant’s attention that 2 No. documents, which were included in the hard copy of the Application documentation, were inadvertently omitted from the digital copy of the Application documentation.  These documents are as follows:

• ‘Drainage Calculations for Biomass CHP Plant Nobber, Co. Meath’.  Prepared by Molony Millar, dated 07 May 2009.

• ‘Proposed Ash Landfill Site for Biomass C.H.P. at Nobber, Co. Meath’.  Prepared by Molony Millar, May 2009.

The Applicant advised An Bord Pleanála of this issue in a letter dated 08th September 2009, and requested permission to update the website. The Board, in a letter dated 11th September 2009, have consented to the updating of this website and the said documents can be downloaded in pdf format below.

  Drainage Calculations

   Landfill Report