Buying County Council Land

Wavey

Evening all,

My house backs onto a public park beside a corner of the park that tends to have kids and teenagers knacker drinking because it provides shelter for them.
It's the type of corner that was ideal for smoking cigarettes and meeting girls you fancied when you were in school! You know the type!

Anyway, the park in question would suffer no loss in area if my neighbor and I were to buy the corner and extend our back gardens.

Does anybody know how to start this process?

I have seen it done around the neighborhood. (Knocklyon).

Basically I was wondering has anyone here ever bought land from the CC and how do you go about doing it?

I'm not looking at land snatching here, we just don't want kids congregating at our back wall, and the extra few yards of garden would be nice.

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks,
Wavey

smashey

You should approach your local councillors.

Gumbo

1. go to the OS office and buy some OS maps for your house.

2. outline what you own in red and what you would like to buy from the council in another colour.

3. write a letter into dublin city council (i thinkg its land and development dept) asking them if it is possible to purchase this piece of land.

that is one way i have gotton some land form DCC for a client who just about had enough space to build a new house in his corner garden but needed a small bit at the rear that belonged to DCC.

worth a try.
let us know how you get on.

Wavey

Thanks for the replies lads.

Kceire,

How did DCC come up with a price for the land?

Can you say how much it was per square mete or acre here?


Thanks,

Wavey.

Gumbo

Wavey wrote:

Thanks for the replies lads.

Kceire,

How did DCC come up with a price for the land?

Can you say how much it was per square mete or acre here?


Thanks,

Wavey.

no, totally depends on the area and the potential of the land.
considering you are not building on the land and will not profite like say a new house on it then it should be a reasonable price.

the last one i did, i just got the ok to negeotiate withDCC, the home owner then sorted the money end out with his solicitor!