{"id":326364,"date":"2026-03-03T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326364\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:44:08","slug":"major-landfill-and-recycling-facility-approved-in-wicklow-despite-local-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326364\/","title":{"rendered":"Major landfill and recycling facility approved in Wicklow despite local opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The road leading to Ballinclare Quarry.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/376b3d01-87b1-4363-927b-c3ce8f23b88c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The road leading to Ballinclare Quarry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Plans for a large landfill for a materials and recovery recycling facility at a quarry in Wicklow has been granted permission by An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la, despite local opposition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kilsaran Concrete Unlimited Company has been given planning permission for a large landfill facility at Ballinclare Quarry, Kilbride, which will provide for the importation, re-use, recovery and\/or disposal of by-product materials and inert wastes generated by construction and development projects in counties Wicklow, Dublin, and Wexford, as well as the backfilling and long-term restoration of the former quarry to native woodland habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road leading to Ballinclare Quarry. Plans for a large landfill for a materials and recovery recycling facility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,4657,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-326364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-myles-buchanan","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}