beolight

Lots of intersting replies:)

I understand fully that the auctioneers role is to secure the best price possible for his client but not by deliberately misleading the buyer which in the N2 case they are certainly doing.

This is exactly what they are doing advertising agricultural land as a site for one off housing. This is misleading from the outset and putting into the advert or sign SPP does the bare minimum to alert the purchaser to potential pitfalls.

Yes you can point out that the clients solicitor should point out potential pitfalls but there are good solicitors and bad solicitors as there are good clients and bad clients. the client may have it in his head that his local councillor will push the application through for him. the phenomen of caravans moving onto sites is clear evidence of this

Remember we are talking about people here who by definition under the planning regulations do not own a home and are either renting or living at home with their parents and trying to build a house close to their parents family clearly they are not property speculators. A pre planning meeting is not going to give them a definitive answere but is a step in the right direction

I would have no problem if they were allowing the purchaser to buy the agricultural land subject to planning to call a one off housing site purchase a speculative purchase is clearly disingenious. i doubt if any auctioneer will put speculative purchase in hiis brochure selling the site

Where the sale is subject to planning then both parties clearly benefit from the potential planning gain and if planning isnt granted both parties are in same position as before entering into the agreement. The farmers know exactly what the risks are and what the value of the land is in agricultural use and his potential gain is a 4 or 5 fold increase in the value of his land. No purchaser wants to be left with a worthless site would the farmer buy it back at the same price i think not.

In Louth almost all auctioneers sell such sites subject to planning yet in Meath this is not the case and i firmly believe the problem lies with the auctioneers who are recommending to sell the land as is.

I believe that if the IAVI want to be recognised as a professional practise that they should step in now and issue their members with a set of guidelines and also issue a guidance leaflet to members of the public advising them on best course of action when considering such purchases. In an ideal world they would recommend to their members that all such sales should be subject to planning

@Bren88

i didnt know exact name for it just rembered it from college:o

thankfully Thomond Park saved my bacon:D

Get a professional shadow analysis done and submit it with your application; take your time with the application to minimise impacts by siting it in the least obtrusive portion of the site.

Anybody here able to point me in the direction of someone who can do this,im based in drogheda

I am going to wait a couple of days before approaching neighbour again hopefully by then she may have calmed down

thanks to all for their input

thanks again guys

the guys at boards.ie think the

so its either

“Most likely, this is an Outlook glitch. A long time problem with Outlook is that if the send is set to compose messages in RTF (Rich Text) format, other mail clients besides Outlook (and sometimes even Outlook) will get the message with a .dat file attached. There is really nothing you can do with the .dat file.In order to “fix” this the sender will need to set Outlook to compose messages in plain text or HTML format.”

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or

that DAT file is an information file thats associated with your architect’s autocad on his computer. There’s no point in trying to open it because all it contains is what you saw in notepad. Basically, he’s sent you the wrong file by mistake, so you’ll need to ignore that DAT file and ask him to send you the correct file when he gets back from his holidays.

or as Bren88 says here

The file is fom AutoCAD, the dwg is the proper file extension. Errors when send/transfering file can cause the DAT extension. Can happen using P2P software or with MS Outlook problems like above.

AutoCAD might still be able to open it and then you can save it off as .dwg. If not you could try a program listed above by “onegallant”

Maybe if i can email it to someone on the forum here with AutoCAD they can confirm whether or not it can still be opened

thanks for that flash of enlightment:confused:

anybody got any constructive ideas, i know he uses CAD but which program i dont know