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Sun room extention

  • 25-01-2013 8:54pm
    #1
    Charlie George
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭


    Just finished a fairly big sized sunroom extention about 30 foot by 10 ft,whats the story with planning,some people telling me i dont need it and others saying i have to get it,its at the front of the house but cant be seen from the road or no neighbours can see it.


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


    If it's to the front of the house, it needs planning permission, and if you've already built it then it's retention planning permission which is needed.


  • #3
    A fella called fish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 188 ✭✭A fella called fish


    ...I'm not being smart, but why didn't you ask this question before it was built?!!

    Also, did you have any professional Architects/Engineers involved or just lash the thing together yourself?


  • #4
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,172 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Charlie George wrote: »
    Just finished a fairly big sized sunroom extention about 30 foot by 10 ft,whats the story with planning,some people telling me i dont need it and others saying i have to get it,its at the front of the house but cant be seen from the road or no neighbours can see it.

    It didn't matter who can our cannot see it.

    Exempted domestic extensions must be to the rear. If yours is to the front it requires permission, and permission to retain as it is now complete.

    Be advised that once unauthorised development exists on a site, you may carry out no other works regardless of their exempted status, nor can you make any valid planning applications.


  • #5
    Charlie George
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭Charlie George


    Just update on sunroom extention,its an old cottage with a few small extentions to the side and front,before sunroom went up it would have been hard to say which is front of house and which is back,could i say that the extention is at back of house or will they know im chancing my arm.


  • #6
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    Charlie George wrote: »
    Just update on sunroom extention,its an old cottage with a few small extentions to the side and front,before sunroom went up it would have been hard to say which is front of house and which is back,could i say that the extention is at back of house or will they know im chancing my arm.

    The tendency isn't for the forum to undergird the underhand. But you raise an interesting question: who decides which elevation of the house is the front and which the back (especially if unclear at the outset). And can they be changed.

    As my architect advised me when I was posing similiarily nit picking arguments "it doesn't matter what arguments you make, if the planners take you to court, they'll win"


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  • #7
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,172 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Ask your local authority for a section five declaration if there its any doubt.

    My la have a common acceptance that the front door is on the front of the house, therefore the rear is on the opposite.
    I have seen this applied on corner sites that have two road frontages


  • #8
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,556 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Charlie George wrote: »
    with a few small extentions to the side and front,
    Its a stupid question to ask but was planning permission ever granted for these "few small extensions" ?

    Charlie George wrote: »
    before sunroom went up it would have been hard to say which is front of house and which is back,could i say that the extention is at back of house or will they know im chancing my arm.
    Careful now as we dont allow this type of discussion as was pointed put earlier.


  • #9
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,902 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    antiskeptic wrote: »
    . But you raise an interesting question: who decides which elevation of the house is the front and which the back (especially if unclear at the outset). And can they be changed.
    Common sense prevails in the majority of cases.
    Charlie George wrote: »
    Just update on sunroom extention,its an old cottage with a few small extentions to the side and front,
    These are likely adding to the list of unauthorised development on site.
    before sunroom went up it would have been hard to say which is front of house and which is back,could i say that the extention is at back of house or will they know im chancing my arm.

    Why would it be hard to say which is the front?
    you called it the front in the OP, so should be somewhat obvious. Also, if you do somehow get it agreed that the side in question is the rear, it might end up being that if the other side is the front, something else becomes unauthorised. Something to watch for.


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