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Buying land from housing estate

  • 02-11-2019 2:42pm
    #1
    redzerdrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭


    I am the first house in a housing estate and there is a green area to the side of the property about 1/4 of an acre.

    I'd love to build a small extension to the back and side of the house but would need about 2 metres of the land at the side of the house to do so.

    Is it even possible to buy a portion of this land and how complicated a process would it be?


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  • #2
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,734 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    redzerdrog wrote: »
    I am the first house in a housing estate and there is a green area to the side of the property about 1/4 of an acre.

    I'd love to build a small extension to the back and side of the house but would need about 2 metres of the land at the side of the house to do so.

    Is it even possible to buy a portion of this land and how complicated a process would it be?

    Probably not. Chances are that land is part of the open space for the estate (where the estate has to provide a certain percentage of the site as open green space for kids to play on and not over-develop the site). With housing estates, they're usually designed with the minimum open space to fit as many houses in as possible. There may also be services underneath which might have minimum distances they can be from the house.

    It's not impossible, but I'd say it's unlikely.


  • #3
    GY A1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭GY A1


    Is it a private estate or taken over by council.
    If private contact owner
    If council estate, ring the council office in your area and ask.


  • #4
    redzerdrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭redzerdrog


    GY A1 wrote: »
    Is it a private estate or taken over by council.
    If private contact owner
    If council estate, ring the council office in your area and ask.

    Not taken over by council, estate is only half completed and has been for the last 10 years. There is a management company in place with the residents as directors


  • #5
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Go on landdirect and find out who owns it first of all. If the site is still only partially built after 10 years the original developer may have gone 'bang'.


  • #6
    woohoo!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭woohoo!!!


    Check the planning for the estate and conditions to see what this portion of land is for. But it sounds like it's open space and very hard to impossible to get planning for that, whether as part of your private space or for another house.


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