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When is a roof garden a roof garden (for planning purposes)?

  • 28-03-2015 8:58pm
    #1
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭


    I assume there is no law against climbing up a ladder onto your flat roof kitchen, stretching out on a lylo and sipping a sunny day away with a few mates and a slab of cold beer

    Yet it appears you need planning for a roof garden.

    Whereabouts is the line drawn between the two?


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  • #2
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    permanent access
    Via door or stairs
    Imo


  • #3
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    BryanF wrote: »
    permanent access
    Via door or stairs
    Imo

    Logical!


  • #4
    Meningate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Meningate


    Be aware that not all flat roof coverings are user friendly. Feet and particularly chair legs on a hot day can easily wreck a flat roof. And of course there is the assumption that the roof beams supporting a flat roof, possibly calculated only to hold the roof and a layer of snow, are strong enough to hold the number of people you propose to have on it.


  • #5
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    And unless the roof of the flat roof was designed as such it may not take the live loading into it from you and your mates.

    You find yourselves back inside the house quite quickly :)


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


    I'll have em all sit around the perimeter! None wear high heels - at least not in public.


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