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Leaving front wall on old house new build

  • 14-06-2020 9:43am
    #1
    Xtrail14
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    I noticed a few new builds at the moment where the front wall is left and rest of house is demolished and new base poured and building in the new even bigger than existing house.
    The old front wall is demolished then and built in the new. What is the idea behind this construction?


Comments

  • #2
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Probably an attempt to cheat the planning system where refurb and extend would only be acceptable.


  • #3
    GinSoaked
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    Locally I know of one house were the planners said the front wall had to be retained. Stupid planning really, not a hope that the wall would stay up once the rest of the house was demolished as it didn't have any foundations, none of the old cottages in the area have anything that you'd call foundations. How the planners thought an old mud and stone wall could be incorporated into a modern house I don't know?


  • #4
    riclad
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    There are many old buildings in dublin where a new building is built behind an old front wall
    I presume because it's easier to get planning permission and the old front wall fits in better with the buildings nearby,
    Eg it would be harder to get pp if they just knocked down the old building.
    I don't think it's that hard to incorporate an old front wall in a new building especially if the building is using walls made of bricks or blocks


  • #5
    riclad
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    The planning office may want the old wall retained especially in the city centre where there's a lot of old Georgian style buildings


  • #6
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    riclad wrote: »
    There are many old buildings in dublin where a new building is built behind an old front wall
    I presume because it's easier to get planning permission and the old front wall fits in better with the buildings nearby,
    Eg it would be harder to get pp if they just knocked down the old building.
    I don't think it's that hard to incorporate an old front wall in a new building especially if the building is using walls made of bricks or blocks

    Sorry I'm thinking about the old country cottages around here which are a fairly standard 2 foot thick with a clay core built directly off the ground with no foundations. Few if any are even vertical due to the roof pushing them out yet the planners love to keep the front wall facing the road. The walls were all rendered when cement became king so on a rebuild you can't even tell if the old wall is still there, unless of course you can spot the dodgy angle of the wall.


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