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Sight Lines

  • 13-02-2017 11:22PM
    #1
    Sonny678
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    I am applying for planning permission. I have a good size site. I am worried sight lines. At the entrance up one side of the road there are no bends into the distance. But to the other side there is a bend further down the road. Is this big problem with planning. How can you overcome it.


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  • #2
    BryanF
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    Approach neighbour, with drawing indicating required site lines, See what it will take for them to let you cut back ditch / reposition road boundary, and get a letter from them as part of the application


  • #3
    tobdom
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    "further down the road"...... whatever that distance is from your site entrance to that bend is the main consideration, and the minimum allowable distance will depend on what type of road it is, N, R, L road (and what the speed limit is)

    Try looking up other planning applications online for your local authority, for houses close to you if possible, and see what may have been said in relation to sight lines. Quite often may be reference in a request for further information from the planners.

    For us, on a local road (in Co. Galway), the required sight line distance was 70m. The specifics of what we were asked to do/prove on our RFI request from the planners was: "Submit a revised site layout plan (scale 1:500) to show details of the maximum sight-lines available in each direction from the proposed point of access, measured from a height of 1.05m to 2m at a point 2.40 metres back from the road edge at an object height of 0.26m to 1.05 metres to the relevant points."


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