Building a one bed apartment in back garden

himalayan_joe

Hi all,

I am interested in building a one bed apartment out my back garden (access through side entrance).

Anyone else try this? Looking for some advice on potential issues I may face!

Joe

DOCARCH

himalayan_joe wrote: »

.....potential issues I may face

Getting planning permission. Chances are slim.

corco2000

It's backland development. Grant of permission slim as stated.

Gumbo

himalayan_joe wrote: »

Hi all,

I am interested in building a one bed apartment out my back garden (access through side entrance).

Anyone else try this? Looking for some advice on potential issues I may face!

Joe

Planning Will be Refused.
Building Regulation issues, such as fire spread and distance to boundaries etc

Advice - Keep saving, as hard as that may be.

JustMe,K

Depends on why you are building it. I have seen (for example) planning granted for back garden units on medical grounds for elderly parents.

Penn

kcdiom wrote: »

Depends on why you are building it. I have seen (for example) planning granted for back garden units on medical grounds for elderly parents.

Tends to be a "family flat" development, and more often than not needs to be attached physically to the main house with direct access between them and planning condition will state that once it's no longer needed (eg. they may state that permission is only granted for 5 years, after which permission to keep using it as a family flat must be applied for), and that after that it becomes part of the main house and isn't rented out as a separate habitable space.

JustMe,K

Penn wrote: »

Tends to be a "family flat" development, and more often than not needs to be attached physically to the main house with direct access between them and planning condition will state that once it's no longer needed (eg. they may state that permission is only granted for 5 years, after which permission to keep using it as a family flat must be applied for), and that after that it becomes part of the main house and isn't rented out as a separate habitable space.

Yes, thats pretty much the conditions on the ones I have seen.

Gumbo

kcdiom wrote: »

Depends on why you are building it. I have seen (for example) planning granted for back garden units on medical grounds for elderly parents.

Could you link us to one of these please.
They should be in the public planning section of the council website.

I have never seen one granted with mouth physical connection to the main dwelling, even on medical grounds.

JustMe,K

kceire wrote: »

Could you link us to one of these please.
They should be in the public planning section of the council website.

I have never seen one granted with mouth physical connection to the main dwelling, even on medical grounds.

This is the one in particular that I can recall http://www.sdublincoco.ie/Planning/Details?p=1&l=tamarisk%20close&regref=SD13B%2F0250

Penn

kcdiom wrote: »

This is the one in particular that I can recall http://www.sdublincoco.ie/Planning/Details?p=1&l=tamarisk%20close&regref=SD13B%2F0250

In the manager's order and FI, they make it clear that in the original design, the proposed glazed link corridor between the main house and family plat wasn't enough of a link, so there was a redesign to provide a more substantial physical link between the two so it could be reincorporated into the main house after time.

Gumbo

kcdiom wrote: »

This is the one in particular that I can recall http://www.sdublincoco.ie/Planning/Details?p=1&l=tamarisk%20close&regref=SD13B%2F0250

Altered to connect to the main dwelling so not a standalone structure.

JustMe,K

To be honest, I only remember this one as it was up for sale a while back and part of the estate agent patter was 'free money, rent out the granny flat for 14k a year tax free' and it looked like the occupants had blocked up any entrance between the main house and the flat, because it had a completely separate entrance.