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Recommendation of someone to widen gate and drive for a second parking space

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  • 28-11-2017 5:04pm
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    brophs
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    Hi,

    We’re looking for recommendations for someone to widen our drive and lay some additional concrete over what is currently grass, alongside the existing drive to give us a second off-street car parking spot.

    Looking for someone reliable and established that people can personally recommend. We’re based just off the Lough.

    Cheers


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    Blitzkrieger
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    Butler's Tarmacadam : https://www.facebook.com/butlerstarmac/

    I'd double check that you don't need planning permission to do that though. It changes the appearance of the front of your house and if a neighbour complains....


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    namloc1980
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    You need planning for that. It changes the appearance of the wall/house. Widening the driveway will reduce the onstreet parking outside potentially and also dishing the footpath to accommodate the drive is the council's responsibility. I'd question any builder who'd do this without the required permissions in place.


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    JMNolan
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    You might have to pay a roads contribution also, I had to do that :( €900


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    brophs
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    Blitzkrieger wrote: »
    Butler's Tarmacadam : https://www.facebook.com/butlerstarmac/

    I'd double check that you don't need planning permission to do that though. It changes the appearance of the front of your house and if a neighbour complains....
    Cheers.

    It does need planning permission, yeah. At the moment I just want to get a few quotes and ideas from them as to what they can do for us and after that we’ll get into organising a PP application.


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    brophs
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    JMNolan wrote: »
    You might have to pay a roads contribution also, I had to do that :( €900
    Yeah, someone had mentioned that to me alright. Bit of a pain, but what can you do, I suppose.


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    Logo
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    Does planning permission and/or road contribution to widen a driveway apply to home owners living in a housing estate too?


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    aratsarse101
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    I'm wondering the exact same thing!


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    Cape Clear
    Registered Users Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭Cape Clear


    This guy will look after everything for you. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/anglo-avenger-jailed-over-stonehenge-stunt-26798256.html


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    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,139 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Logo wrote: »
    Does planning permission and/or road contribution to widen a driveway apply to home owners living in a housing estate too?

    Yeah it does. The road contribution might be different if the estate is not yet taken over by the council. Then in that case it's the developer who would have to sort that out. Probably charge for any work done or else they'd allow your own contractor to do it. But planning required regardless.


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    Black_Knight
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    Does planning permission apply if you're not extending the driveway entrance? ie. Everything change is contained inside the driveway.


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    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,139 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Does planning permission apply if you're not extending the driveway entrance? ie. Everything change is contained inside the driveway.

    It depends. If you're paving over the existing front garden then planning will be needed because runoff water has nowhere to go and could cause issues for you or neighbours. A small extension of paving while keeping some garden for water to run into is unlikely to need planning but best to check with the council first.


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