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Council not allowing old house to be knocked

  • 28-08-2019 9:05pm
    #1
    Ciaran10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭


    Folks,

    General situation is I have been left a site of land with an old house on it. Old house looks relatively well from the outside considering its 200/300 year old . We have been told the house was never actually built on foundations initially and has major cracks on the front walls along with roof caving in and the ceiling only been about 6ft. My plan was to demolish it and rebuild on the site and the architect didnt seem to think I would have any problems with planning..

    However after the architect consulted the local planner in the council he came back and said the council wouldn't entertain the idea of demolishing the old house due to it being traditional and fitting the area. Has anyone ever had previous issues like this?
    I'm hoping to get an engineer out to survey the house but I'm unsure if this will make a difference to the council even if he deems the building unsafe.


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Get a surveyor to do a detailed survey showing exactly what the condition of the building is, what steps would have to be taken to make it habitable and what the reasons are that prevent it from being usable. We had to do exactly that to prove that a house could not be made habitable even though it qualified as a house for the purpose of building another one on the site.


  • #3
    arctictree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,364 ✭✭✭arctictree


    We had a house exactly like this in Wicklow. Wanted permission to restore it, which was refused, as house was not in habitable state. Eventually got planning but had to completely knock it.

    In my opinion, planning aims are often contradictory. ie, they dont want derelict buildings but on the other hand regularly refuse planning to renovate derelict buildings. Its a nightmare to navigate this and get a successful planning app through.


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