2560364: Development will consist of a logistics facility comprising two units (Unit 1 comprises a warehouse measuring c. 9,596 sq m gross internal area (GIA) with a height of c. 17.0 m and an ancillary two-storey office measuring c. 867 sq m GIA. Unit 2 comprises a warehouse measuring c. 5,460 sq m GIA with a height of c. 17.0 m and an ancillary two-storey office measuring c. 867 sq m) within a business campus setting. The proposed development will also consist of: associated yard areas including 30 No. trailer and truck parking bays; level access and dock levellers; 142 No. car parking spaces (including 101 No. standard parking spaces, 32 No. electric vehicle (EV) spaces and 9 No. accessible car parking spaces); electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure; 54 No. bicycle parking spaces; vehicular, cyclist and pedestrian access / egress from Local Road L8184 internal pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular circulation; bin storage; signage; CCTV; ESB sub-station; boundary treatments [including gates, piers and fencing]; lighting; all hard and soft landscaping; provision of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS); and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including changes in level and associated retaining features, and associated site servicing [water and electricity supply]
Lands located at Dublin Road (R448) Ballyvergal, Palatine, Carlow
DecisionConditional grant
Decided14 May 2026
Application typePERMISSION
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Site
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Source documents
Original council portal records and source PDFs where available.- Application fileApplication file on www.eplanning.ieSource portal
- Notification Of DecisionSource: carlowcoco.eplanning.ie / Ceda6e5f-1e1f-4a92-a0e4-cd0eddc6a6f8.pdf / Document 150813Source PDF
- Chief Executives OrderSource: carlowcoco.eplanning.ie / 636a045f-231d-42af-889a-1d1b2bacb9f7.pdf / Document 150812Source PDF
- Final GrantSource: carlowcoco.eplanning.ie / D6fc189b-fa93-4c02-a589-75ce628a1a25.pdf / Document 153296Source PDF
- Planners ReportSource: carlowcoco.eplanning.ie / 011c8f79-3535-40ac-9c5c-d0a88da46bf0.pdf / Document 152061Source PDF
- F I Request LetterSource: carlowcoco.eplanning.ie / 6f436602-3f68-4a83-b6fd-19741e387e55.pdf / Document 145206Source PDF
Nearby precedent
Similar nearby applications linked to this planning decision.- 2560326The renovation of an existing derelict dwelling and construction of an extension to the side and rear of the dwelling and all associated site works including upgrading waste-water treatment / 0.2 km away / 11 December 2025Conditional grant
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- 21472Permission for development consisting of the construction of a new build two storey, four bedroom detached house; two car parking spaces and all associated site works and service connections / 0.4 km away / 22 November 2022Conditional grant
- 1774Development consisting of a proposed prefabricatated single storey office building (floor area792 sqm - to be known as Annex F) and associated site access footpaths, site works, landscaping and site services. / 0.4 km away / 03 May 2017Conditional grant
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- 21109Permission to erect an aluminium framed terrace canopy including retractable fabric awning with glass windbreak side panels and doors, adjacent to the existing site Canteen building at the biologics formulation and filing facility at Dublin Road, Pollerton Little and Oakpark, Carlow. The development is comprised of a single storey terrace cover with a gross floor area of 193sqm approximately all at ground level and alignment of existing hard landscaping. The purpose of the development is to provide ancillary eating and break facilities for site personnel / 0.5 km away / 18 May 2021Conditional grant
- 2050A new laboratory building and related extensions to the existing biologics formulation and filling facility. The development comprises a combined gross floor area of c.4,088sqm, including; (i) a new three-storey laboratory building (c.3,320sqm and maximum height 18.19m); (ii) a two-storey extension to the existing production building (c.448sqm and maximum height 9.20m); (iii) a single-storey extension to the existing energy centre (c.220sqm and maximum height 10.20m); (iv) a new single storey workshop building (c. 100sqm and maximum height 4.70m); (v) associated site development works / 0.5 km away / 06 April 2020Conditional grant