Driveways

mags16

Ok, so my car has been interfered with yet again so I plan to spend my ssia on a driveway. I call up dublin city council and it appears that I have to get architect standard drawings for my planning permission application. What's with that? An architect to draw two pillars and a driveway? I also need maps from ordinance survey. Its all gonna cost a bomb before any wall gets knocked. Has anyone any advice?

le-dub

That sounds like a load of bull. I know you planning permission if say you want to out concreate at a curn outside your drive, but to covr your driveway?

ASk your self this, do you really need to pillars outside the house. If its only a small wall, just knock it down tell the neighbours on each side as they dont complain, dig up the garden and throw down some cement and level it off.

where i live there are already 3 people who have done this in de last 2 weeks..

le-dub

le-dub wrote:

That sounds like a load of bull. I know you planning permission if say you want to out concreate at a curn outside your drive, but to covr your driveway?

ASk your self this, do you really need to pillars outside the house. If its only a small wall, just knock it down tell the neighbours on each side as they dont complain, dig up the garden and throw down some cement and level it off.

where i live there are already 3 people who have done this in de last 2 weeks..I was talking to 2 of them and no planning permission was mentioned...

mags16

I want to do a really nice job and be all environmentally aware and keep lots of the existing garden. I wont be able to get the path "dished" by the council if I don't get the permission. Also if i ever want to sell the house, I might have some problems if there was no pp. Has anybody got planing permission for a driveway in the last while? If so, what did you submit?

mad m

Its not bull.Yeah you need planning permission for a drive in,if not in future of sale of your house they will probably ask about it and you will have to put in a retention planning application which will cost you trebble as its a penalty.

I dont think its that much to do.Ring up an architect and ask how much.You will also have to put the planning permission in garden for the normal three months and also in the local paper.

I have seen alot of people just knock there walls without planning,but a neighbour across from me was refused planning for a drive in because he wanted it the width of the house,Dublin City Council said he had to have pillars which was in keeping with the other houses and plus he had to get a letter from neighbours saying they didnt object to the drive in....

mags16

Thanks mad m. Yes I want to be above board with this. I was wondering if you can get away with doing the drawings youself - they would be of good quality, not a doodle on a scrap of paper.

godtabh

mags16 wrote:

Thanks mad m. Yes I want to be above board with this. I was wondering if you can get away with doing the drawings youself - they would be of good quality, not a doodle on a scrap of paper.

You can do it all your self. Its all fairly simple. If you can use CAD its simple. Guidelines on the net

Sponge Bob

architect standard means a CAD drawings with the aspects (front , side) and site layout (top) .

A second year engineering student could do it for ya. and you photocopy 6 times and clip to the application forms in the planning office.

Thats it. Make sure your materials are in keeping with the hood, tarmac, brick cement whatever.