New Planning regulations

@Meath wrote:

Hi All

Can anyone advise what the new planning regulations that are coming in are? A planner in Meath mentioned that there are new regualations coming in soon that will affect one off houses?

Helpful fellow that I am – clicky linky:

https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=5009

😀

Hutton,

Clearly you are Mr Anti one off housing.
One off houses pay a lot of architects bills – I was just looking for a bit of friendly advise.
Have recently been refused planning – after giving FI 3 times – have now read another thread that says I should have gone to court after 2nd FI and not submitted again.
Was objected to by people who have only moved into the area and have just themselves got planning permission for a commercial development.
My partner and I do not own a house as the planning laws make you feel the right thing to do re local needs, is not to buy a house. My partners family have lived in the area for 200 years and we submitted a cottage style bungalow with low ridge height.

So your bit of sarcastic help to be honest was really the last thing I needed.

Oh g-d. Here we go again.:(

Meath-
hutton isn’t anti-one-off. As you’ll see from that thread, he (?) was one of the more diplomatic posters- his beef was with people who post queries similar/identical to previous discussions without having first checked the previous threads on the site. There are plenty of us here far more hard line than he about such matters as one-off houses. But crucially, in his defence, you didn’t mention anywhere in your OP that you were pro-one-off, or give details of your touching story. You asked for info and he provided a link to some info. Perhaps not the best info, but not a million miles from what you asked for imho, and most importantly the kind of info you would have found if you’d done a search.

Simple rule of thumb: specific queries get specific answers, generic queries get links to previous threads.

For the record, the planning rules coming in regarding one-off houses is that, within 10 years, no more will receive permission because all of our land will have been built on by people with ‘an attachment to the land’. You mightn’t read this in the meeja just yet, but mark my words, it’s only a matter of time… Too much time, in my book, but you’d probably gathered that by now.

My apologies Hutton. Just pretty angry. Sorry my fault

Meath,

FWIW, that does sound like a particularly bad case- the repeated FI nonsense, the recent arrivals objecting (not all that uncommon, sadly), the fact that your case for local need sounds stronger than those of many who get permission and also the fact that you seem to have approached the process in a reasonable way.

I am indeed opposed to much of what gets derided as one-off housing, but equally that’s just my opinion and has little bearing on the established rules re same. It’s not your house I’ve a problem with, it’s the government’s free for all approach to planning of which ‘Sustainable Rural Housing’ :rolleyes: is just one example, and their use of the planning system as a way to garner votes. But I’m getting into the area of government root and branch reform, which is going a little off topic. Ultimately, however much I might disagree with it, you have a right to the same treatment as other applicants going through the same process and it seems, based on the few details given above (there might be other pertinent grounds for refusal that you haven’t mentioned), that this hasn’t happened.

To go back to your original question, ask the planner you spoke to about the specifics of the new regs. If s/he hasn’t got them, then you can presume that it’s a smokescreen. And if the regs haven’t been adopted, then I’d think your case should be determined according to whatever regs and development plan policies are current. That’s what the damn development plan is for.

Meath,

The Planners may have been referring to the P&D Regs 2006 – due implementation between now and March – see: http://www.environ.ie/DOEI/DOEIPol.nsf/wvNavView/Planning?OpenDocument&Lang=#55

and scroll down to:

SI 685 of 2006: (PDF, 867KB)
Schedule of Amendments to 2001 Regulations: (PDF 115KB)