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Leveling my lawn and building a bank!

  • 05-10-2015 2:09pm
    #1
    mossyob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    How high can you build a bank to level your lawn? There's a slope at the rear of my house that goes to a 7 foot drop at the boundary,its dangerous when mowing the lawn with the tractor lawnmower and I would like to level out lawn. Not sure what's the best way to support the bank?


Comments

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


    You need an engineer to design a retaining wall.


  • #3
    4odh4n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭4odh4n


    just be aware that raising or lowering the ground level by more than 1 metre would require planning permission


  • #4
    Car99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭Car99


    4odh4n wrote: »
    just be aware that raising or lowering the ground level by more than 1 metre would require planning permission

    How about .9m this year and .9m next year?


  • #5
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,342 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Car99 wrote: »
    How about .9m this year and .9m next year?

    You’ll need planning next year so.


  • #6
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    Car99 wrote: »
    How about .9m this year and .9m next year?
    You will also need PP for the RW as it will be over 8 feet from your neighbours side
    It would be a big, expensive job, do you have access for heavy plant and machinery

    https://www.shaymurtagh.ie/precast-concrete-products/concrete-retaining-walls/

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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  • #7
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    kceire wrote: »
    You’ll need planning next year so.

    It's an interesting question, though. Presumably it is defined as 1m over the 'original' level, but how long before we accept the current level as the original level? Presumably if my great grandfather raised the level 0.9m in 1889 they won't count that against me. What if my father did it 20 years ago?


  • #8
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    This thread is 4 years old.


  • #9
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Car99 wrote: »
    How about .9m this year and .9m next year?
    PhoenixParker wrote: »
    This thread is 4 years old.

    Exactly


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