New healthcare facility planned for Tullamore

Tullamore could be poised for an employment boost, with news of a proposed medical technology facility in the town. Synergy Health Ireland Limited, part of the Steris group, has published plans to construct a new sterilisation technology facility at Ballyduff, Tullamore.

The total gross floor area of the proposed development is in excess of 6,700 square metres.

Synergy Health Ireland Limited, which has another presence in the IDA Business and Technology Park in Tullamore, is seeking planning approval for the project on a 3.21 hectare site, fronting the Clara Road.

The proposed development has the project name Steris Tullamore, and will comprise the provision of a sterilisation process facility with an office block attached to the front of the building, and ancillary technical external rooms.

The site is just north of the Applegreen on the Clara Road.

The planning application also seeks approval for the repositioning and upgrade of two existing entrances to the site from the Clara Road (R420) to provide a staff entrance and a dedicated truck entrance.

Internal roads, footpaths and a bicycle path are also proposed as are 42 parking spaces, eight truck parking spaces and 34 bicycle parking spaces and a segregated cycleway along the boundary of the site on the Clara Road.

Documents submitted with the planning application, which was lodged earlier this month, state: “The application is being made in response to the increasing need for quality business and technology companies and employment opportunities with the Tullamore region.

“The proposed Steris healthcare facility will generate employment opportunity and will service a wider region demand for the sterilisation of medical equipment.”

Steris Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST) provides contract sterilisation, laboratory testing, and product and packaging testing services.

A decision is due from Offaly County Council on the application by May 2.