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Building a house onto an end of terrace

  • 23-10-2007 9:15am
    #1
    beetlebailey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    Can anyone advise.....I have and end of terrace in an a relatively new estate with a some space beside the house about 19 feet wide and was wondering if it would that be enough space to build a 2 or 3 bed house?
    My house is a 4 bed with two 3 beds in the middle and another 4 bed at the other end of the terrace which the owner builta 4 bed house onto.

    The estate is a mixed development of 2,3 and 4 bed houses. Some other people in the estate have build houses onto their existing house but they tended to have abit more space than myself.

    Also as i`m thinking of doing this and selling the new build plus my existing house with the market as it is would this be the wrong time to start sucha project?


    Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,370 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    19 feet is about 5.7m so technically its possible.
    i have seen houses get permission with a total external width of 5.1m, so you should be ok.
    but it depends on alot of other things, ie. building line.

    have you got any pics of your house with the empty site beside it?
    also one showing whatever is behind the sight, we may be able to help you further.

    best bet would be to get an architect or draughtmans to survey the side garden and approach the local planner for a pre-planning consultation to see if its possible.


  • #3
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,556 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    kceire wrote: »
    best bet would be to get an architect or draughtmans to survey the side garden and approach the local planner for a pre-planning consultation to see if its possible.
    Good advice and if you get a map of the area you could even run with a pre planning meeting yourself


  • #4
    ircoha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭ircoha


    make sure that u can ensure that the water esb gas sewage can all be made 100% separate for the new house.

    The other point is take legal advice on nhow to split the housees from a title perspective

    finaly, at the risk of falling foul of Muffler here, from a tax perspective, if u sell the old one and move into the new one no cgt will arise on the sale of old one and then sell the new one, no cgt either.

    if u sell the new one there will be a tax issue, in part driven by what value do u put the site in as to the new build.
    Have fun!


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