99k worth according to Bannon, but you need to know how to word your applications.
Grant are there to be applied for but grants have restrictions. If you're knowingly bending the truth to get around the restrictions then that is simply wrong. End of.
Personally I'd like to see an episode where there's a family with an average 3 bedroom bungalow/semi-d.
They've a reasonable budget where they want to make the living area a bit brighter and and make the house more cosy.
Not this demolish the house and sort of an endless budet.
There's still also room for this wow episodes.
Can people even do small renovations anymore? Bringing houses up to regulations seems to cost a fortune without doing anything else.
Well going by Room to Improve it looks hard. It's does seem off putting.
Breaking story tonight now that they might have not had planning permission granted.
It looks to me like the build was done without planning permission, there's an approved application in for retention, applied late 2023. I find it most weird that a DB build would go ahead for TV and promote grants without any planning permission. That's just plain wrong and up there with cowboy builders.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I couldn't find anything submitted by DB on the planning website before the build.
Planning permission "retention" was only granted 3 days before the show aired.
Combined with the unusual grant applications and this has the potential to finish Room To Improve as a series.
Serious issue if true.
Big embarrassment for those involved
Half the extensions in the country don't have planning permission FFS
Madness. Utter arrogance on behalf of Bannon. His Tubridy moment.
Can you remember a few years ago when a couple extended the bedroom extra with the builder and he put a stop to the whole thing until planning was granted.
NOT THE POINT.
Well well well.
So this was the real purpose of his meeting with Darragh O'Brien last week.
Yep.
So what is the point?
A development was completed without any PP at all. I wonder how they were so certain retention would be granted.
Bannon and co are chancers at best.
The whole system stinks and that "reality" tv show should be shelved immediately.
You do have to question it to be fair.
There's people who got a builder who put a bit onto the kitchen or a bedroom for granny but having government grants and professionals involved when there's €100,000's involved is a different story.
Not quite breaking, that was posted in here Monday morning.
Dont think it was?
@Gusser09 I could have highlighted it a bit better I suppose.
How did they get the grants without planning permission?
I would be fairly certain that they haven't got a penny of any grant yet. And may not get the grant at all.
People have been outraged on this thread about the couple pocketing 100,000... but as I've been trying to make a point of, I think the show has recklessly misrepresented the grant process and the couples.
That's why Bannon had his meeting last week imo. An attempt to "make good" of his / the shows reckless advice.
Gets his coat and runners on for this one. Ok ready??
did everyone who watched this on Rte have a tv license? 👀🏃♂️
It says the grant has to be approved before any work can start.
He is some cowboy.
Bypass regs just so that some time filler show can be put out.
Whoever decides that this nonsense is acceptable is unprofessional at the least and takes the viewers for fools.
Rte and the companies it buys programmes from really need to be sorted.
Are rules and regulations only for the little guy.
Maybe time to send DB to join that other smirking talentless yoke in london
People need to cool the jets re planning.
There are a few application relating to the property as well as Nov 23 application by bannon.
His angle is that the extension was generally exempt and due to a late change to make use of the 1st floor, it was no longer exempt.
A person would need to see the history of what was original floor area versus completed ground floor area to get a handle of whether the ground floor design by bannon would be exempt but i certainly wouldn't be assuming he is wrong.
If final grant of permission has not yet issued, you can be certain no council grant has been paid out.
Well dermot says they got approved for the grant.
Settle down lads. Check the criteria for the grants. Does it stipulate pp?
They might not as the grants arent really for the purpose of extending.
Surely that extension couldn't be exempt.
Even more concrete than that, it's the Department of Housing that is saying that it was approved. That's a big shock to me.
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