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planning application issues

  • 07-08-2009 4:25pm
    #1
    its baltic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭


    Hi there,

    Just wondering could anyone provide info on the dicretionary powers of the planners and environmental department of the councils, I have a planning application in at the minute and they were going to refuse it on the basis of not being happy with the percolation area, evan though my site characterisation report has found an area of suitable percolation and the highest spec treatment system was specified.

    Has anyone else had similar problems or able to share experience,s.

    cheers in advance


Comments

  • #2
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    It would be a little unusual for a planning application to be refused solely on a feeling of not liking a percolation area if the application showed a site charactarisation and results which passed the tests.

    Is there a history on the site, was there tests done there before, or nearby. Perhapse you should read the planners report or talk to the planner involved, I'm sure they can shed some light on the situatiuon.


  • #3
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Its not unusual in Mayo to refuse based on not liking a trial hole. You could have excellent percolation results, special report on groundwater etc recommending suitabiltiy for treatment system, you could have a contract signed with Bordnamona for installation & ongoing maintenance of the system and still be refused on the planners whim. The planners still seem to think they are qualified to make the decision on whether the site is suitable or not based on simply having a quick look at the trial hole. Now they could happen to visit after a weekend of crazy rainfall and the water level in the hole would be slightly raised (This is not groundwater level but simply surface runoff captured in the open hole) and they would therefore refuse the application.


  • #4
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Ok, but trial holes are meant to be covered, to prevent the ingress of rain and run-off waters, and left for inspection.


  • #5
    its baltic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭its baltic


    what yer saying there sounds right, had the trial hole left open and after recent weather it may not have looked great, my main issue is how can the planners just throw out the report that i have got a qualified person to do without evan questioning it with the author, surely he would be entitled to state his case as to why he passed the area for percolation in the first lace.


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