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@HAS wrote:
I have an existing dwelling house under construction. I want to convert the attic space to bedrooms. I will not be altering the front elevation of the house or the height in any way. Permission was granted for a bungalow. Do I require planning permission to carry out these works?
My concern is that I will not get a Certificate of compliance with planning for the bank. The height etc of the space in the attic allow me to fully comply with the building regulations.Most attic conversions do not comply with building regulations and are not actually allowed to be included in your living space. What usually happens is that you can only call it “Storage Space” with the bank and if ever selling.
As regards planning you usually do not need planning permission once:-
1. You are not raising the roof level.
2. You are not changing the front elevation of the house.
3. You are only using Skylight type windows to the rear only.
4. It is OK to put Skylights on the ends of the house if you have a double pitch.Check you local councils web site for information. There is a leaflet that tells you what is exempt and some councils have this scanned on their sites. I know South County Dublin site does.
I assume you realise your appartment is most likely still under warrantee. Contact the builder, or the estate agent you bought from. Start as polite as you can and if after a few tries if you get nothing back then send a solicitors letter. Tell them you will go to the council about it and report to the Health and Safety Authority.
Make sure you keep records of every letter, phone call and e-mail.
My house was built in 1939. So it’s been there quite a while. Actually it’s a pensioner now.
We have had an engineer look at it for us. Here is what we have come up with.
1. The 3 houses we are worried about are 7m from their rear boundary. The accepted distance for the area based on other developments and the development plan etc is 11m to the boundary.
2. The first house is only 10m from the wall of my house. Again less then the accepted and the zoning.
3. Overlooking and overshadowing. We have been told that these are acceptable objections.
4. Us overlooking the new houses. Never heard of this one but apparently it is legitimate.
5. Traffic conditions. Our gate is only 10m from the lights on the junction and we already have some problems exiting.
Here is what we are quoting from the development plan.:-
The zoning of the proposed development site under the Fingal Development Plan 2005-2011 is:
“RS To provide for residential development and to protect and improve residential amenity.” (emphasis added)
The vision of this zoning is:
“To ensure that any new development in existing areas (e.g. extensions, additional houses in side gardens, childcare facility etc.) would have a minimal impact on existing residential amenity.” (emphasis added).
Basically 3 of the houses back onto me at 45deg. We are on the corner of a field set at 45 deg facing the corner. The back of the closest one will be 7m from the boundary wall and 10m from my house.
Although they have only put one small toilet window in the back of the houses when you get to the second and third houses it is actually their side windows that are looking over us. The shape below shows the layout of the houses. Left side is the back and this section is 2 story. The other section is single story. The lower side of the two story section is the one with all the windows. (ignore the dots. I had to use them to get it to work properly)____________
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……………|___|@billy no mates wrote:
Where are you? Is it rural or suburban? Does your planning authority have a development plan? If so go and look at it, you may even find it online. Some PAs have it online some don’t.
I’ve had to object to a planning application recently (Fingal Council).It’s Fingal as well. The development plan says the land is for medium density. I think thats maximum 10 per acre and they are putting 32 on 5. I’m not realy worried about the development as I think it will lift the area in general and eventually rise the value of my house but not if I am being overlooked. As I said to the developer. That’s all I am realy trying to stop.
@a boyle wrote:
On final and crucial thing: get it in soon, very soon! what can happen is that you object to the height say , the applicant then provides more information, BUT get this you are not told that the aplicant has responded to your objections. In the council area we were dealing with you had to check every day to see if something new was on the file. So the sooner you object the more you will be able to make sure your opinion is heard!
Make sure you take what i have said with a pinch of salt and find someone who really knows their stuff ( oh and don’t get ripped off ! ) good luck
I have actually been told to leave my objection to the very last minute. Like the day before (and get a receipt). This is supposed to avoid your issue. i.e. the developer has no time to address your issues. He can’t make any changes after the cut off date.
