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Planning Question

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  • 04-06-2004 11:31am
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    por
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    Wondering if someone can help me with this.

    I would like to place a window in my kitchen and I am wondering if it is exempt from planning.

    The window would be on the ground floor, at the side of the house. The window would be more than a meter from the boundary with the next house.

    I have looked in the Galway Co. Co. planning website and I can find nothing about such a scenario, but an engineer has told me that it is exempt.

    Does anybody have any 1st hand experience?


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    Victor
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    It should be exempt.

    Reasons why it might not be exempt:
    Listed building
    Overlooking neighbour (use opaque glass)
    Fire hazard
    Too close to boundary
    Excessively detrimental to look of building


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    por
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    Thanks for the info Victor

    One question though
    Too close to boundary = What is the definition of too close, it should be about 1m from wall.

    I talked to Galway Co. Co. and they said 'Any material change to a house is subject to planning'. or words to that effect.

    They said that the info was on the Dept of Environment website http://www.environ.ie

    It probably is but there are about 30 individual PDF files of planning regulations.


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    Victor
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    Originally posted by por
    I talked to Galway Co. Co. and they said 'Any material change to a house is subject to planning'. or words to that effect.
    Unless covered by one of my points above, this is unlikely to be a material change and your (local?) engineer concurs.

    Fingal Co.Co. apply a rule of 1m as the minimum between a house and the site boundary and I imagine Galway do the same - however you aren't building any closer, so it shouldn't be a problem.

    Building close the the bounday line does affect Fire Regulations (e.g. fire exiting the window and entering a window in the other building) - however a single small window would probably be exempt.


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