Environmental Impact Statement
M7 Portlaoise - Castletown &
M8 Portlaoise - Cullahill Road Scheme
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Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Public Private Partnership (PPP) Scheme
1.2 The Scheme in the context of the NDP
1.3 Consultation
2. SCHEME DESCRIPTION
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Mainline
2.3 Junctions
2.4 Side Road Realignments
2.5 Access Roads
2.6 Structures
2.7 Scheme Cost
3. ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED
3.1 Route Selection Study
3.2 Mitigation of Impacts by Avoidance
3.3 Selection of the Toll Plaza Location
4. TRAFFIC
5. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSED SCHEME
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Community Impacts
5.3 Noise and Vibration
5.4 Air Quality
5.5 Landscape and Visual
5.6 Archaeology, Architecture and Cultural Heritage
5.7 Material Assets - Agriculture
5.8 Material Assets - Non-agriculture
5.9 Climate
5.10 Soils and Geology
5.11 Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology
5.12 Drainage
5.13 Groundwater
6. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
6.1 Viewing and Purchasing the EIS
6.2 Way Forward
