Causeway Coast and Glens Council approves work towards moving waste transfer from Craigahulliar to Macosquin
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At an Environmental Services Committee meeting on Tuesday, November 12, members endorsed a scoping and feasibility study for the construction of the station at the Macosquin facility.
Council currently operates three other waste transfer stations: Aghanloo, Limavady; Craigahulliar, Portrush and Crosstagherty, Ballymoney.
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Hide AdA report noted that, should permission be granted, it is envisaged the waste transfer station at Craigahulliar will be surplus to requirements “allowing full closure of the site”.
Craigahulliar is a former quarry located three kilometres southeast of Portrush. Following several years of disuse, the quarry was purchased by Coleraine Borough Council in the early 1990s for a municipal waste landfill operation.
“Craigahulliar as a landfill is going to be closing in the immediate future,” an officer said. “And as such the removal of a waste transfer from there to Letterloan would allow you the potential for future development of that site.”
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