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Planning question Dun Laoighre Rathdown

  • 16-04-2012 7:46pm
    #1
    k123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭


    We are looking at a house off Rochestown avenue with an unusual parking arrangement

    Basically there is no front parking, the arrangement is you park car in back garden, using a large electric gate, u park on a large patio near to house

    Unfortunately this patio is near the house, and I would prefer to park the car at rear of grden, furthest away from house


    What I had in mind is block up wall , where existing gate is, create a new opening in wall, where I have marked X on the photo, and a concrete pad to park the car on. This moves the car from house and allows the patio to be used for relaxation etc. The electric gate to be moved to where the new opening goes and theold aperture blocked off and rendered.

    It will be neccessary to repalce the grass verge outside wall, with a concrete path, with no kerb, so u dont have to drive over grass verge

    Is this the kind of thing, which would pass planning, and am I right in assuming, this will require planning

    BTW if anyone else has any other ways to get around parking car, close to house, please let me know

    As well as the labour costs to move the gate, are there costs payable to DL council


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  • #2
    sinnerboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭sinnerboy


    You will need planning . And DLRCC will insist that you provide some means of compensating for the lack of rainwater soakage implied by your propsals - that's IF they grant permission , far from a certainty. That part of the boroughs public drainage system is creaking at the seams so they are ( correctly) very protective of it and won't let you add more burden onto it.

    In my experience too the locals regard contacting the enforcement dept of the LA as a form of therapy - so I would not even contemplate doing it "on the quite". You will get your collar felt.

    On this occasion I would go with photo and OS map into the drainage dept at Marine Road and sound them out. They'll put you straight as to what obstacles you face as the planner will pay close attention to them if you make an application.


  • #3
    1865
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭1865


    Its hard to tell from the photo but it looks like you are hoping to make the opening very close to a tree so they probably won't want you digging up the roots or concreting over them. Also is it near a turn or bens and will the new entrance have sufficient line of sight to be safe.

    It will be a difficult one to get trhough the palnners. would it be possible for you to keep the current entrance and just move some of the pation down to where you ant to park and put some grass in near the house?


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