Meath County Council - Planning - link to site coverage and plot ratio

justagirl

Any help appreciated. I am looking for the requirements for: site coverage and plot ratio on the Meath County Council website (East Meath) and I cannot find it anywhere. Grateful if someone could point me in the right direction. Many thanks.

Gumbo

They area calculation that your agent need to carry out based on site area, foot print, area behind building line etc

Why hasn’t the agent done this?

justagirl

kceire wrote: »

They area calculation that your agent need to carry out based on site area, foot print, area behind building line etc

Why hasn’t the agent done this?

I don't need an agent? I can do all the calcs myself

I am looking to see where site coverage and plot ratio requirements are on the Meath County Council planning website (East Meath) and cannot locate same

Gumbo

justagirl wrote: »

I don't need an agent? I can do all the calcs myself

I am looking to see where site coverage and plot ratio requirements are on the Meath County Council planning website (East Meath) and cannot locate same

I am not aware of a max plot ratio or site coverage.

justagirl

kceire wrote: »

I am not aware of a max plot ratio or site coverage.

Thank you. I have it for commercial but I cannot see one for resi. on the MCC Planning documents so it must be on a case per case basis I presume.

Gumbo

justagirl wrote: »

Thank you. I have it for commercial but I cannot see one for resi. on the MCC Planning documents so it must be on a case per case basis I presume.

I would assume so.
We have resi and commercial here that are 100% site coverage etc

justagirl

kceire wrote: »

I would assume so.
We have resi and commercial here that are 100% site coverage etc

I've never heard of 100% site coverage for resi? Interested to know where it is allowed? there has to be outside space?

Metric Tensor

City centre apartment blocks for example.

justagirl

Metric Tensor wrote: »

City centre apartment blocks for example.

Normally though site coverage for apts would be 70-80% ... you need to allow for the safeguarding of light etc?

Metric Tensor

Yes. That's correct - normally

As far as I know in some urban centres if you can get your daylight requirements with 100% coverage that may be acceptable in some cases. (Think of very shallow sites for example) I could be corrected on this too as it's not my area of expertise.

There are density requirements in some local area development plans in terms of number of dwellings per hectare and percentage open space for developments but that's a little different to "site coverage" - but maybe that's what you are looking for? If so read the local area or town development plans - they usually have an appendix on housing/development standards.

justagirl

Metric Tensor wrote: »

Yes. That's correct - normally

As far as I know in some urban centres if you can get your daylight requirements with 100% coverage that may be acceptable in some cases. (Think of very shallow sites for example) I could be corrected on this too as it's not my area of expertise.

There are density requirements in some local area development plans in terms of number of dwellings per hectare and percentage open space for developments but that's a little different to "site coverage" - but maybe that's what you are looking for? If so read the local area or town development plans - they usually have an appendix on housing/development standards.

Thank you very much Metric Tensor - appreciate it. Yes, I am trawling through the development plans and LAPs as well .... and the guidance notes for building ... some conflicting information but I'll ring the council concerned and try to get clarification. Thanks again.