Galway Planning

LetsThinkBIG

What is the craic with the planners in Galway?

Have they the reputation of being approachable?
Favourable?

Etc, Etc

biko

There's been an 8 percent decrease in the number of planning permission granted in County Galway.
Figures released in Sept show that permission was granted for 319 units in Galway city and county between April and June this year - down from 345 for the same quarter in 2010.

LetsThinkBIG

Thats great information, whats the source so i can further investigate!


As a sample, Existing 2 story end terrace with large garden.
1. Tear it all down and build in a flats complex.
2. Redo the roof and extend out the back.

As an off-the-cuff opinion what do you think ?

Lapin

LetsThinkBIG wrote: »

What is the craic with the planners in Galway?

Have they the reputation of being approachable?
Favourable?

Etc, Etc

Given some of the monstorous crap that has been given planning permission (and built) in Galway in recent years, I would say they are overly favourable.:(

LetsThinkBIG

Haha monstrous crap? What d'ya mean by that?
Im new to the city so I missed that kinda loop

Gingko

There's planning in Galway???

biko

http://www.galwaynews.ie/21867-decrease-galway-planning-permissions

Moved to Planning for more serious answers. They'll know more about planning.

Lapin

LetsThinkBIG wrote: »

Haha monstrous crap? What d'ya mean by that?

Take this for a start.....

LetsThinkBIG

Aghhh come on there must be some kind of limit ... Like do applications get turned down?

You seem to have buildings etc etc im mind that were planning disasters.. Elaborate !!

Gingko

LetsThinkBIG wrote: »

Aghhh come on there must be some kind of limit ... Like do applications get turned down?

You seem to have buildings etc etc im mind that were planning disasters.. Elaborate !!

Countless buildings, dodgy estates finished poorly, even a hotel built over a petrol station! The entire infrastructure around the city is a disaster. Round about after round about etc. Worst urban planning of all the Irish cities.

Lapin

LetsThinkBIG wrote: »

You seem to have buildings etc etc im mind that were planning disasters.. Elaborate !!

The entire city is a template for how not to plan an urban landscape.

In recent years the majority of new housing developments were concentrated on the west side of town while the main industrial employers are located on the eastern fringes.

The result is a needless daily cross town migration between home and workplace for thousands using 2 narrow bridges designed for a medieval city, an even less adequate georgian bridge and a not yet 30 year old bridge already handling more than twice the volume of traffic it was designed to take.

Any proposals to develop sustainable public transport links across the Corrib were paid the usual lip service by planners and quietly binned.

Meanwhile, all second level schools are located in the city centre or west of the Corrib adding to the rush hour congestion.

Of the housing developments on the east side of the city, Doughiska was built long before anyone decided to tell Bus Éireann who eventually took the hint and erected a bus stop out there began providing an occasional bus to the place.

Despite giving the go ahead for hundreds of houses in Doughiska, creating a populous area similar to many small Irish towns, it never occured to the planners that there might be children living in the place, as there were no schools built in tandem with the houses.

And I wouldn't like to live out there if my house caught fire during the rush hour, given that the only fire station around is located on the other side of the city. Just over the oldest medieval bridge.

Some planning eh?

Lapin

biko wrote: »

http://www.galwaynews.ie/21867-decrease-galway-planning-permissions

Moved to Planning for more serious answers. They'll know more about planning.

I'm serious about my answers regardless of what forum they're in.

Gingko

It's truly a disgraceful situation really eh? So many Mé Feiners in Galway that just could not pull together for the greater good. They have taken away the look of the city of tribes for good. And for what? Short term wealth? Yea sure the old centre of Quay St, High St, Shop st etc still has charm even if all the tacky plastic shop fronts are now ruining that. Again it's a case of the retailers who won't pull together for the greater good.

I can even remember certain retailers wanting to shut the Galway market down for their own vested interests. This is the mentality your up against for positive change. Many of the folk profiting off Galway and it's people are nothing short of scumbags. Nothing new there! "Bull McCabes " the lot of them!

muffler

LetsThinkBIG wrote: »

What is the craic with the planners in Galway?

Have they the reputation of being approachable?
Favourable?

Etc, Etc

Right, you are in the Construction & Planning forum now so lets see if we can address your query.

Can you elaborate a bit more regarding this part of your comment

Have they the reputation of being approachable?
Favourable?

Are you proposing to make a planning application? Are you thinking about looking for a pre-planning meeting.

A few more details and we can get to the specifics.

Thanks

nacimroc

LetsThinkBIG wrote: »

Haha monstrous crap? What d'ya mean by that?

How about this disastrous 70's looking square ugly lump of a building that can be seen from 10+ miles away overlooking the lake in Loughrea. (Loughrea hotel)

kayos

The wife and I are in the planning process at the moment. We are just finishing off the documents to submit for permission. So far we have found the planner over our area very reasonable and approachable.

OP ring the office and arrange a meeting its the only way you will find out.

wildefalcon

To listen to some of the people on this thread you'd think that the planning process was in place to allow an orderly, sustainable and planned development of Galway, so that people can live there in quiet harmony with each other and the environment!

Don't ye know it's just to allow the council to dispense favours to their cronies!

muffler

Right guys. We are not going to discuss planning in Galway generally. The OP had a specific query so please stick to that. Thanks.

whineflu

LetsThinkBIG wrote: »

Thats great information, whats the source so i can further investigate!


As a sample, Existing 2 story end terrace with large garden.
1. Tear it all down and build in a flats complex.
2. Redo the roof and extend out the back.

As an off-the-cuff opinion what do you think ?

Well I think that any opinion you get based on your info would be less than worthless. For a start you haven't even mentioned where the house is, what the area is zoned for, whether it's overlooked, if there are similar blocks of flats in the vicinity.
Next you'll be asking us to guess the sex of your unborn child.


By the way if you're not able to check the zoning for the area and are relying on randomers in an internet forum then I suggest you cancel your aspirations of becoming a property tycoon. Maybe last decade...

If you really can't do due diligence yourself then apply for it and see how you get on. I'm sure the bank will take a close look at the viability of the project anyway.