Who is responsible for marking out site for new house build

bold_defender

We are planning to begin building this year and we now need to move an ESB pole and line before we commence. I marked out the four corners of the site as requested by ESB. I did this roughly as I thought the ESB would just move the pole to the roadside but on visit ESB advised that they want to move the line to the back of the site (I've no issue with this).

ESB man put a marker at rear corner of site for a pole but when told the site was marked out roughly he said it would need to be accurate. I think he just wants to make sure if boundary moved the pole doesn't end up a few metres out in field or out into garden.

How accurate do we need to be?
My wife owns the site and the field that contains it. So there is no change of ownership and no land registry maps.
I based my marking off the planning maps. Are these OK for this purpose. Should we be getting the guy doing the assigned certifier to mark it?

I think I'm within a metre or two at most. I measured as best I could but had only one ref point (one corner) to start from. As I see it now the ESB pole will become the new corner once in. I just want to make sure planning won't have an issue.

Ri_Nollaig

Well if your wife [and therefore you] own the site+existing field then it doesn't really matter regarding planning. The builder will mark off the exact location of the house itself when it comes to excavating for the foundations and thats all planning will care about.

ESB lad mightn't be aware you own the adjacent field and was just playing it safe. Would be a very different matter if you didn't own the whole field. You would have to get an engineer to exactly mark out the site.

Either way wherever the pole is will become your new corner, make sure any tension cables are running inline to whatever boundary you'll have, don't want them running into your future garden either!

The only possible issue I could see; in future if either the field or the house were sold separately and who ever was going to buy it got it measured and found an issue.
That your 1 acre site or whatever, is actually 0.95~. Realistically that probably doesn't make much of a difference then either and it would be priced to reflect it. But thought I'd say it. Good luck with your new build!

BryanF

Your arch or eng or surveyor could mark this out