Causeway Coast and Glens Council approves work towards moving waste transfer from Craigahulliar to Macosquin

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.

A 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.”