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planning permission chances if moving home

  • 22-01-2014 10:00am
    #1
    Heffc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭


    hi all,

    My husband and I are currently considering a move from Dublin to my home in Co Limerick. Can anyone give me a steer as to whether we would have any chance of getting planning permission to build a house in the area? I've lived in Dublin for over 16 years now - would the fact I'm originally from the area count for anything? Can anyone advice as to who I could talk to find out about this kind of thing. I'm pretty clueless on how it all works.

    thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    Aard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Contact Co Limerick's planning dept. If you want to build in a rural area there are restrictions designed to stop people living in the countryside and driving miles into town everyday. The planning department will be able to advise you. Otherwise the rules should be on the council's website.


  • #3
    ht9zni1gs28crp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭ht9zni1gs28crp


    Unsure if the returning immigrant rule will actually come into play given the fact that Dublin isn't exactly foreign soil. Worth the question at least to Limerick planning office...


  • #4
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Elliana Damaged Goggle wrote: »
    the returning immigrant rule
    can you show us this in a development plan thanks, I've never come across it before


  • #5
    bertie 56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭bertie 56


    BryanF wrote: »
    can you show us this in a development plan thanks, I've never come across it before

    Kilrush development plan 2008 - 2014

    Page 106 :


    "
    Proposals for single houses for permanent occupation in rural areas outside of the settlement boundary, will be permitted where it can be clearly demonstrated that: A The applicant is a local rural person
    (...)
    A local rural person is a person who was born in the local area or who is living, or whose parents or children have been living within the local area for a minimum of ten year. In the case of persons who have spent substantial periods of their lives as part of the rural community but have left and wish to return and settle in those areas they may also be considered local rural persons ".



    Probably not the only one...:mad:


  • #6
    ht9zni1gs28crp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭ht9zni1gs28crp


    BryanF wrote: »
    can you show us this in a development plan thanks, I've never come across it before

    Hi Bryan, no links just now but it was one of my mainstays of my own planning application in Co Meath. Tied in with 7 year habitation rule as a condition etc...usual holiday home scenario you see in Donegal and other coastal counties.

    Lots of proof required of life abroad aswell as life prior to emigration.

    AFAIK all counties shall have this rule in their development plan to cater for returning immigrants.


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  • #7
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    That's not a 'rule' yer referring to.


  • #8
    ht9zni1gs28crp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭ht9zni1gs28crp


    BryanF wrote: »
    That's not a 'rule' yer referring to.

    The habitation of 7 years you mean? As its a condition on my granted planning surely it can be read as a 'rule' if you proceed? :)

    splicing hairs ;)


  • #9
    Aard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    I'm afraid that when it comes to granting planning permission, it's ALL about splitting hairs.


  • #10
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Elliana Damaged Goggle wrote: »
    The habitation of 7 years you mean? As its a condition on my granted planning surely it can be read as a 'rule' if you proceed? :)

    splicing hairs ;)

    A posters above referred to 'the returning immigrant rule' I've just never heard of anyone granted planning under such circumstances, that's not to say it hasn't been done and I accept there is a loose terminology in the dev plan for those who have in the past lived in the area and now must move back there.


  • #11
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    We moved from Dublin to Sligo, where I'm from, after leaving 20 years ago but still have family there. An excerpt from our planning, granted last year, is attached defining what is a need for rural housing. Once you satisfy the need, the rest of the normal planning guidelines will apply so it's not a given that you would receive planning just because you meet the rural housing need. If you don't meet the rural housing need, chances are you will not receive planning.


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  • #12
    ht9zni1gs28crp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭ht9zni1gs28crp


    BryanF wrote: »
    A posters above referred to 'the returning immigrant rule' I've just never heard of anyone granted planning under such circumstances, that's not to say it hasn't been done and I accept there is a loose terminology in the dev plan for those who have in the past lived in the area and now must move back there.

    As per my post No 6 above which you have already jumped on! ;) We received planning in a very tightly controlled area under a very strict council!

    and as per CS above...same on ours!


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