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Planning for mobile home

  • 26-03-2018 5:45pm
    #1
    krusher74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    Looking to get planning for a mobile home on a site I am considering buying in co sligo, Is this easy to get  can you get hooked to esb?


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  • #2
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,369 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    krusher74 wrote: »
    Looking to get planning for a mobile home on a site I am considering buying in co sligo, Is this easy to get  can you get hooked to esb?

    No and no.
    To both questions.


  • #3
    krusher74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭krusher74


    Hi, thanks for the reply, do you have personal experience trying to do both of these or know people who have tried. its just I have also been told yes and yes. so don't know what to think?


  • #4
    TanyGray
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 52 ✭✭TanyGray


    krusher74 wrote: »
    Looking to get planning for a mobile home on a site I am considering buying in co sligo, Is this easy to get  can you get hooked to esb?

    When we built we bought a second hand one and lived in it on site for the duration of the build. We didn't even bother applying for pp.

    We paid the neighbor a reasonable price to connect to their electricity supply. All it is is a plug.

    Everyone else I know who ever did their own build did it that way if they were using a mobile.


  • #5
    krusher74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭krusher74


    Thanks for the info.  I was considering the the mobile home to be my permanent dwelling and not planning on build a house.


  • #6
    TanyGray
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 52 ✭✭TanyGray


    krusher74 wrote: »
    Thanks for the info.  I was considering the the mobile home to be my permanent dwelling and not planning on build a house.

    Well I don't know about that option.

    But lots of people do live in mobiles permanently and don't get planning permission.

    I even know a couple who rented their house out and they live in a mobile at the end.of the garden. But you would have to have a house and services on the site already for that to be an option.


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  • #7
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    we obey the law in this forum. No more discussion on flaunting the plannings laws thanks


  • #8
    Meningate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Meningate


    I have no experience of Irish planning laws so I can't comment on how easy it is to get, but I can not see any reason why you would not get permission on a suitable site. Once you had permission for a permanent STATIC home ( remember the term mobile home is because it's on wheels, it doesn't mean you are actually mobile with it like a touring van ) you should have no difficulty having an electricity supply to it.
    If you have a site in mind, go to your local planning office and ask them. You'll find them very helpful and they'll tell you what your chances are.


  • #9
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Meningate wrote: »
    I have no experience of Irish planning laws so I can't comment on how easy it is to get, but I can not see any reason why you would not get permission on a suitable site.
    Indeed. But the only suitable site is a caravan park. Where people are allowed to park their caravans.


  • #10
    Meningate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Meningate


    Possibly, but if you can find a site that would just take one mobile home and not close amid houses you might be ok. There is another option, and here I'm basing it on uk planning. If you got planning permission for a small house, you would only need to dig a small section of the foundations to make the planning permission irrevocable. You could then legitimaly live in a mobile home on the site whilst building your house. How long it took you to build it would be entirely up to you.


  • #11
    Metric Tensor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭Metric Tensor


    Meningate wrote: »
    Possibly, but if you can find a site that would just take one mobile home and not close amid houses you might be ok. There is another option, and here I'm basing it on uk planning. If you got planning permission for a small house, you would only need to dig a small section of the foundations to make the planning permission irrevocable. You could then legitimaly live in a mobile home on the site whilst building your house. How long it took you to build it would be entirely up to you.

    I don't know anything about UK rules but that's 100% incorrect in Ireland.


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  • #12
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,369 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Meningate wrote: »
    I have no experience of Irish planning laws so I can't comment on how easy it is to get, but I can not see any reason why you would not get permission on a suitable site. Once you had permission for a permanent STATIC home ( remember the term mobile home is because it's on wheels, it doesn't mean you are actually mobile with it like a touring van ) you should have no difficulty having an electricity supply to it.
    If you have a site in mind, go to your local planning office and ask them. You'll find them very helpful and they'll tell you what your chances are.
    Meningate wrote: »
    Possibly, but if you can find a site that would just take one mobile home and not close amid houses you might be ok. There is another option, and here I'm basing it on uk planning. If you got planning permission for a small house, you would only need to dig a small section of the foundations to make the planning permission irrevocable. You could then legitimaly live in a mobile home on the site whilst building your house. How long it took you to build it would be entirely up to you.

    With all due respect, your knowledge of Irish Planning law is non existent and people should not follow your advice.

    For example :

    Foundations don’t constitute that planning has been implemented here in Ireland. The works need to be substantially complete and that means wall plate level and roof started.


  • #13
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Meningate wrote: »
    Possibly, but if you can find a site that would just take one mobile home and not close amid houses you might be ok. There is another option, and here I'm basing it on uk planning. If you got planning permission for a small house, you would only need to dig a small section of the foundations to make the planning permission irrevocable. You could then legitimaly live in a mobile home on the site whilst building your house. How long it took you to build it would be entirely up to you.
    As above we obey IRISH planning laws. Planning is required to place a mobile home on a green field site.


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