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Room to Improve (v2)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,513 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    Room to Improve has been on air for 15 years, so somewhere in the region of 70-80 projects?

    If a handful need retention permission for mid-build changes, this is hardly surprising.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,228 ✭✭✭✭event


    There are load of houses that the front door was moved a few feet, there is a garage in the wrong place, the walls and pillars at the front of the garden are too high etc etc. Majority of houses in the countryside dont get sold on, they are peoples forever homes. But if they do, what do you think they do? They get retention. Its simple

    In a time where we are experiencing a housing shortage crisis like never been seen before, this piece is advocating to slow the process down so every single change, no matter how small, has to be changed and PP applied for. Absolute codswallop.

    Im not saying people can build an entire house without PP, that would be silly. But making out like this is a key issue in the country, when in reality its very very small, is madness



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,979 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    When solicitors engage someone to carry out a planning search on a property it is almost always just a register search.

    The person doing the search will just note the planning permissions on the folio of the property.

    This type of search will not reveal minor variations from permissions granted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,592 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    This is very true based on the 11,000 who did it from just 2019.

    RTI reflects reality it would seem



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,228 ✭✭✭✭event


    And remember, there are thousands more who would need retention but havent applied as they are not selling their house. So the number is even higher. I reckon RTI is below the average



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭Francis McM


    Not the point. Another poster wrote / claimed that the  "majority of houses" "dont have the proper planning permission or required retention."

    Of course most houses have planning permission, because of one the things a solicitor will check / have to check when it changes hands / someone gets a mortgage and buys it is if it has proper planning permission. And if not, has retention been successfully obtained.

    No bank or building society would accept the security of a building which is not planning compliant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,228 ✭✭✭✭event


    Incorrect

    My house is not planning compliant. I got a mortgage on it last January. The bank is well aware



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,979 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    It's actually a very pertinent point but if you don't care to take it on board I won't detain you further.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭lmk123


    Somebody must have bought phone credit for Francie 1 and 2 again



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,592 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    😁😁 Francis wants to put 11,001 people in jail, she must be stopped!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭Francis McM


    Read the newspaper article I quoted from. That is not true. And you are not funny.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,592 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Don't put up posts about the law being broken and then try and step away from the implication of that.

    While it may be technically the law, as you have been shown, it doesn't work like that in practice and Bannon is more typical than unique.

    You weird and bizarre mission to 'get him' on some angle across multiple threads has failed.

    Give it up, save face, just stop.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,728 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    I see in the Bookmarks page that there are 16 new comments on this thread.

    I look forward to some discussion on houses, buildings, DB's style, or something similar.....

    Instead I'm faced into the same two people have a slagging match at each other. Near enough same names and same avatar's, so I can't even tell them apart when I skip over the bickering.

    Maybe take it to DM's folks? Nobody here is really interested.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭lmk123


    I’ve suggested that more than once, he / they have taken over every thread with his/their bullsh*t since RTI started in January



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,351 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Also does exactly the same in the radio forum, making absolute shite of many of the current affairs programme threads.

    I've reported them in both forums, to no avail.

    Ignore button is your best bet - at least it saves you having to read all their posts.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Mod: @FrancieBrady @Francis McM You have diverted the thread enough with another one of your back n' forths. I would recommend you put each other on Ignore, or take it to DM - because this is not the first thread you have derailed with your routine.

    It's a discussion site and thus "Robust" discussion is to be expected and encouraged - but not to the extent that it drag threads borderline off-topic and floods the place with your inability to agree the sky is blue, let alone anything quantitative. Stop badgering each other, leave each other be; nobody else enjoys reading it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,728 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    This reminded me of Dermot.

    Screenshot_20240420_212241_Chrome.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,728 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Personally I'd like to see it. I know not everyone will agree. They are looking for smal lproject.

    Screenshot_20240507_165941_Instagram.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,226 ✭✭✭Trampas


    Small project but large budget



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    -So, Dermot, we just want the bathroom retiled, and the hallway painted please.

    -And what's the budget?

    -€1,200 Dermot

    2 weeks later……..

    -So I've decided to slice the house in two and burn the bit that will be left over. Then I'll dig down 3 floors and build an underground swimming pool and shark tank. The house will go from a B1 to an E3, but there's a grant for that, that I'll forget to apply for. Budget? About €575,000 to start, due to rise to €1,347,516.43 after I decide to turn the swimming pool upside down. And the kitchen will be made of plywood because it looks shite.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,190 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    New series 5th January.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    new series in 20 min. who is tuning in

    looks like only 4 ep this series. surely thats not right



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,190 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    All the stuff on the shelves since 2017, at least you can be sure there's no mice or rats running around 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭touts


    Rich Tea biscuits that went out of date in 2017. I'm surprised the director didn't try to get Dermot to eat one for the entertainment factor.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    frozen in time



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,865 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    219k small money says Dermo

    Bedroom downstairs on a street not a great idea



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭touts


    €350k construction costs estimated before they even stick a shovel in the ground. And she'll end up with a house that looks just a little bit bigger than two shipping containers stacked one on the other.

    This is insane.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭antimatterx


    I like the designs. Very nice house.



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