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Kilkenny County Council have given the green light to Abbott Ireland plans to construct a medical device manufacturing building at Kilkenny IDA Business & Technology Park, Ring Road, Loughboy, Kilkenny.
The development will consist of site clearance and enabling works required to facilitate the development and the construction of an industrial building (for the purpose of medical device manufacturing), with a gross floor area of 29,490sqm.
The building will be part-one and part-two storeys in height, with enclosed plant at roof level.
The building will accommodate assembly rooms, an electron-beam sterilization area, support and staff welfare facilities, kitchen and dining facilities, warehouse/storage space, and ancillary office space.
The ancillary office space totals 4,645sq.m at ground and first floor levels.
A fenced marshalling yard and waste yard will be built to the north of the proposed building, along with loading bays, waste compactor and gated access points as well as for a fenced utility compound area located to the western part of the site.
This compound area will accommodate 2 emergency generators, 2 sprinkler tanks and a single storey building comprising a sprinkler house, and ESB substation, including client control room (with a GFA of 182sqm).
A single storey security guard house will be constructed to the southeast of the site alongside 520 car parking spaces and 236 bicycle parking spaces.
The development includes the surfacing of the link road to serve the subject site; landscaping, boundary treatments, photovoltaic panels at roof level, entrance barriers, site lighting, and all associated site development works, including underground foul and storm water drainage services and attenuation areas and all ancillary works.
The site is located to the west of the Bohernatounish Road (and of existing buildings within the Business and Technology Park), to the east of the Outrath road and Loughboy Industrial Estate, and to the south of the Kilkenny Ring Road (N10) and an office development currently under construction.
The application was approved by Kilkenny County Council, subject to 18 conditions, on November 30, 2022.
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