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Inspectors Report (300/R300506.Pdf, .PDF Format 1300KB) Inspector’s Report ABP-300506-17. Development Drehid Waste Management Facility. Location Timahoe West, Carbury, County Kildare. Planning Authority Kildare County Council. Applicant Bord Na Móna. Type of Application S.37E (Strategic Infrastructure Case). Planning Authority Decision N/A. Observers Full list inside. Date of Site Inspection 18th September 2018 Inspector Philip Davis ABP-300506-17 Inspector’s Report Page 1 of 182 Contents 1.0 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 3 2.0 Site Location and Description .............................................................................. 3 3.0 Proposed Development ....................................................................................... 5 4.0 Planning Authority ................................................................................................ 7 Planning Authority Reports ........................................................................... 7 Prescribed Bodies ....................................................................................... 12 Observations ............................................................................................... 15 5.0 Planning History ................................................................................................. 33 6.0 Policy Context .................................................................................................... 35 EU Policy..................................................................................................... 35 National Policy ............................................................................................ 36 Regional Policy ........................................................................................... 36 Development Plan ....................................................................................... 37 Natural Heritage Designations .................................................................... 37 7.0 Proceedings of the Oral Hearing........................................................................ 38 8.0 Planning Assessment ........................................................................................ 53 9.0 EIA Assessment ................................................................................................ 78 10.0 Appropriate Assessment ........................................................................... 112 11.0 Overall Conclusions .................................................................................. 122 12.0 Reasons and Considerations (Draft Order) ............................................... 127 Appendix A: Report of Professor Paul Johnston, TCD. Appendix B: Proceedings of the Oral Hearing ABP-300506-17 Inspector’s Report Page 2 of 182 1.0 Introduction This application, under Section 37E of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended, is for a significant expansion of the existing Waste Management Facility within a Bord na Móna peat extraction area in central county Kildare. The application was accompanied by an EIAR. An Oral Hearing was opened in Johnstown Estate Hotel from the 10th September 2018. This oral hearing was adjourned pending the submission of an NIS (following a request to the Board by the applicant and a screening) and a subsequent oral hearing was held at the same venue for 3 days from the 11th March 2019. A series of observations and objections have been submitted by the County Council and other observers, with the primary issues focusing on the scale of the proposed facility, traffic intensification on the local road network, and the protection of local watercourses and groundwater. The Board appointed Prof. Paul Johnston of Trinity College Dublin as a consultant on design and hydrology/hydrogeological issues. His report is attached in Appendix A of this report. I would note that there is some overlap with another SID application currently with the Board – ABP-303211-18, Knockharley in County Meath – this application is for the disposal and storage of similar waste materials (Incinerator Bottom Ash). A decision is due on this in mid-2020 and the Board may wish to consider both files concurrently. 2.0 Site Location and Description Timahoe Bog and surroundings The existing waste management facility is located within an extensive area of mined peat bog (with an extent given as 272 hectares) within the townlands of Timahoe West, Coolcarrigan, Killinagh Upper, Killinagh Lower, Drummond, Kilkeaskin, Loughnacush and Parsonstown, located approximately 5 km south-east of the village of Carbury, 3.4 km east of the village of Derrinturn, and 5.5 km north of Allenwood. It is 9 km south from the M4 at Johnstown Bridge at the border with County Meath. The bog is known locally as both Drehid bog and Timahoe Bog. ABP-300506-17 Inspector’s Report Page 3 of 182 Timahoe Bog is within an extensive area of mostly Bord na Mona landholdings. It is part of a complex of raised bogs almost 10km in length north to south and averaging around 3-5 km in width, stretching from just south of the Meath border near Johnstown, to Allenwood in the south. The former raised bog is now almost entirely mined out and is primarily regenerating with a mixture of wet and dry heath, residual peat, and birch/pine scrub, much of which is rapidly becoming a forest. The former bog road accesses and internal railways are now largely closed or overgrown, with just one high quality link road running around 5km north from the R403 to the Drehid waste management facility located in the heart of the former bog – this road is the sole road access serving the waste management facility. The surrounding area is mostly low lying plain and low hills typical of the post glacial midlands landscape. Timahoe Bog mostly drains to the south and west, to the Cushaling River, eventually draining into the Barrow/Nore catchment. The drainage to the river system is passive – there is no active pumping to the river system indicating a very slight head relative to areas to the west and south. Around the former bog is mostly grazing land in medium sized fields and a series of villages and small towns. To the south, the R414 is a former turnpike running directly east to west, connecting such historic villages as Prosperous and Clane. The R403/R402 runs in a northerly direction from the R404 through the villages of Derrinturn and Carbury west of the site, before joining up with the M4 at Johnstown in County Meath north of the bog. The area east of the site is served by a sparse network of L-roads which serve the farmlands on the low-lying land. Drehid waste management facility The existing facility is a landfill and waste processing centre within the heart of the former raised bog, served by a single access road approximately 5 km long extending from the R403 to the south. The raised peat bog is intersected with deep land drains and exposed working faces, with extraction having ceased. The existing facility consists of a waste disposal facility (two cells are completed and appear as distinct hills on the otherwise largely flat landscape), along with an indoor composting facility, a landfill gas powered generator, an administrative area, weighbridge, settlement lagoons along with ancillary infrastructure. The site is within a much larger Bord na Mona landholding. ABP-300506-17 Inspector’s Report Page 4 of 182 The site overlies acidic peat bog with an underlying geology of deep till deposits over dolomitized limestone, mudstones and shale. The general drainage is to the west and south, eventually discharging to the River Barrow – the northern side of the bog drains north to the Boyne catchment. The former bog around the waste management facility is rapidly regenerating as birch, willow and pine woodland, and is drained through a series of very deep ditches which discharge naturally to the Boyne and Barrow catchments. 3.0 Proposed Development The proposed development is described in full in the accompanying documentation. I would summarise the key elements of the application as follows: The development of a new landfill footprint of approximately 20.89 hectares to accommodate 250,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) of non- hazardous waste including incinerator bottom ash, construction and demolition waste and stabilised biowaste. The existing permitted quantity is disposal of 120,000 TPA of non—hazardous municipal waste. The on-site recovery of approximately 15,000 TPA of metals from a maturation and metals recovery facility (a building of approximately 7,380 square metres). The provision of a 4.69 hectare inert material storage area. The development of a new landfill footprint of approximately 10.79 hectares to accommodate 85,000 TPA of hazardous wastes, including incinerator fly ash and other residues. On-site pre-treatment facility for incinerator fly ash and flue gas treatment residues in an ash solidification building with a floor area of 613 square metres. A hazardous waste handling building with a floor area of 400 square metres. A Hazardous Waste Storage and Quarantine Area with a floor area of 4000 square metres. ABP-300506-17 Inspector’s Report Page 5 of 182 An increase by 20,000 TPA to be accepted at the existing composting facility (currently 25,000 TPA), and removal of the restriction on the operating life of this facility. An extension to the existing composting facility to cater for an additional 45,000 TPA entailing a composting building with a floor area of 6,905 square metres. A waste control building with a
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