Modular option

mano79

My parents have offered us their house to move into if we build on a "granny flat for them". Now without doing any major research I would imagine this could cost at least 100k and wouldnt particularly add a lot of value to the property when selling it later. My husband has suggested we would be wiser to spend money on a modular house in the garden of the house for ourselves instead and leave them in their own house. Main reason for this - we would plan on selling the property once they pass (so not our plan to make it our long term house) and then we could move the modular house and set it up as a holiday home in a location we both love and have a little site in.

I suppose I'm wondering can this be done. Is modular movable in approx 10 years?? This might be totally unrealistic - does anyone know?

Does anyone have a cost of how much a modular would cost to completion? Thinking 3 bed approx 1,000 sq ft.

Also we would have to get a mortgage to build this modular house so I assume the bank would need us to own title on the land. Can this be done without separate access? - we would be just using my parents entrance.

I also assume we would have to pay out for our own connection to ESB/water and pay council contribution.

Just looking for some advice anything would be appreciated. Renting very very small house at the min so anything would be an improvement!!

Gumbo

mano79 wrote: »

My parents have offered us their house to move into if we build on a "granny flat for them". Now without doing any major research I would imagine this could cost at least 100k and wouldnt particularly add a lot of value to the property when selling it later. My husband has suggested we would be wiser to spend money on a modular house in the garden of the house for ourselves instead and leave them in their own house. Main reason for this - we would plan on selling the property once they pass (so not our plan to make it our long term house) and then we could move the modular house and set it up as a holiday home in a location we both love and have a little site in.

I suppose I'm wondering can this be done. Is modular movable in approx 10 years?? This might be totally unrealistic - does anyone know?

Does anyone have a cost of how much a modular would cost to completion? Thinking 3 bed approx 1,000 sq ft.

Also we would have to get a mortgage to build this modular house so I assume the bank would need us to own title on the land. Can this be done without separate access? - we would be just using my parents entrance.

I also assume we would have to pay out for our own connection to ESB/water and pay council contribution.

Just looking for some advice anything would be appreciated. Renting very very small house at the min so anything would be an improvement!!

You will not get Planning Permission for this modular house in the rear garden or for its habitation unless the site meets all the required criteria for a new dwelling, open space, parking, window distance etc etc

Metric Tensor

Also the "modular" building will have to meet all the current building regulation including insulation, air tightness, disability access and renewable energy requirements.

This will make it almost the same price as a traditional build.

It could be very difficult time get planning unless it's a big site capable of being split in two.

Angry bird

Get a pre planning meeting with local council to see will they consider a detached structure or insist in adding as extension with own door. Whether attached or detached extra bedrooms tend to add value. I'd for get about the idea of future holiday home somewhere else, tbh sounds like pie in the sky stuff and it will need it's own planning permission on a future holiday home site with no guarantee at all of getting it. This country is plagued with holiday homes.

Gumbo

Angry bird wrote: »

Get a pre planning meeting with local council to see will they consider a detached structure or insist in adding as extension with own door. Whether attached or detached extra bedrooms tend to add value. I'd for get about the idea of future holiday home somewhere else, tbh sounds like pie in the sky stuff and it will need it's own planning permission on a future holiday home site with no guarantee at all of getting it. This country is plagued with holiday homes.

Just out of interests AB, here in Dublin, granny flats are been refused their own separate entrance unless it's to the rear or side and behind the building line. The DCC planners stance is that they cannot allow the front street scale to look like it's an additional dwelling so the entrance has to be hidden, either inside the house or behind. Kills a lot of proposed granny flats here.

Angry bird

kceire wrote: »

Angry bird wrote: »

Get a pre planning meeting with local council to see will they consider a detached structure or insist in adding as extension with own door. Whether attached or detached extra bedrooms tend to add value. I'd for get about the idea of future holiday home somewhere else, tbh sounds like pie in the sky stuff and it will need it's own planning permission on a future holiday home site with no guarantee at all of getting it. This country is plagued with holiday homes.

Just out of interests AB, here in Dublin, granny flats are been refused their own separate entrance unless it's to the rear or side and behind the building line. The DCC planners stance is that they cannot allow the front street scale to look like it's an additional dwelling so the entrance has to be hidden, either inside the house or behind. Kills a lot of proposed granny flats here.

Different councils have different policies but personally, from a design perspective, I fail to see what difference it makes to where a door is. Most I come across are in rural settings so obviously completely different to DCC.