Retention Required for a Chimney?

eddie-n07

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Friend has just signed contracts on a house. There is a chimney which is not on drawings. Solicitor says retention planning permission is required while builder is saying that that an engineers report will do.

Any one have any similar experiences?

rayjdav

Eddie,

Extract from the Planning and Development Regulations 2001:

Schedule 2: Part 1: Exempted Development General:

CLASS 2

The provision, as part of a central heating system of a house, of a chimney, boiler house or oil storage tank.
The capacity of any such oil storage tank shall not exceed 3,500 litres.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/si/0600.html

Have a look and satisfy yourself that what is existing falls within these parameters.

DOCARCH

eddie-n07 wrote: »

...solicitor says retention planning permission is required...

* tuts and shakes head * Solicitors just wind me up! :mad:

As Rayjdav says above, planning should not be required.

Jo King

DOCARCH wrote: »

* tuts and shakes head * Solicitors just wind me up! :mad:

As Rayjdav says above, planning should not be required.

How do you know the chimney is part of a central heating system?
An opinion should be sought from the local authority.

Poor Uncle Tom

Jo King wrote: »

How do you know the chimney is part of a central heating system?
An opinion should be sought from the local authority.

When the fire is lighting is it not heating the house?

Anyway, the exemption is subject to Article 9 and the premises not being within the curtilage of a protected structure.

IMO, you should get an independant good local Architect/AT/Engineer to check and certify.

muffler

If Im reading the OP correctly then the chimney does need permission. The exemptions referred to only apply to adding chimneys to existing houses.

This situation is equatable to the issue that arises here every so often regarding increasing a new house size by up to 40m2 as it is being constructed.

The house must be fully complete before any of the exemptions become applicable.

rayjdav

Muffler,
Thats the very reason that I put in the last sentence, to make sure that the purchaser/solicitor is satisfied that it complies.;)

It is not stated if a new or "old" house in the OP.