Once off building in Co. Meath

Gumbo

Guys,

is there anywhere that i look for guidelines on one off building in County Meath.

My friend has just asked me what the local needs for the area are, but i preseume he will have to ring Meath Co. Co. to confirm etc but are there any general guidlines about?

his mother lives there, he lived there until 3 years ago and his son got confirmed there and went to school there too.

JuniorB

http://www.meath.ie/LocalAuthorities/Publications/PlanningandDevelopmentPublications/CountyMeathPlanningPublications/CountyMeathDevelopmentPlan2007-2013/File,6730,en.pdf

Seems similar enough to most Counties.

Section 6.7.3 ....


The Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines outline that Planning Authorities in formulating
policies recognise the importance to rural people of family ties and ties to a local area such as
parish, townland or the catchment of local schools and sporting clubs and deliver positive
benefits for rural areas and sustain rural communities by allowing people to build in their local
areas on suitable sites.
The Planning Authority will support proposals for individual dwellings on suitable sites in rural
areas where the applicant can clearly demonstrate a genuine need for a dwelling on the basis that
the applicant is significantly involved in agriculture. In these cases, it will be required that the
applicant satisfy the Planning Authority with supporting documentation that the nature of the
agricultural activity, by reference to the area of land and/or the intensity of its usage, is sufficient
to support full time or significant part time occupation. It is also considered that persons taking
over the ownership and running of family farms along with the sons and daughters of farmers
would be considered within this category of local need.
The Planning Authority will similarly support applications for one off houses for persons whose
significant employment is in the bloodstock industry, forestry, agri-tourism or horticulture sectors
and who can demonstrate a need to live in a rural area in the immediate vicinity of their
employment in order to carry out their employment. The same requirements to submit
supporting documentation as outlined above will be required in this instance.
In both instances above which relate to natural resources related employment, the applicant shall
satisfy the Planning Authority as to the significance of their employment. Where persons are
employed in a part time capacity, the predominant occupation shall be farming / natural resource
related. It should be noted, that where an applicant is also a local of the area, the onus of proof
with regard to demonstrating the predominance of the agricultural or rural resource employment
shall not normally be required.