Changing your house from part of an estate to a private entrance

11-10-2024 06:19PM #1

Hi Looking for any advice you can offer or if you know of anytime this has been done before?
We own an end house in a small estate in a country village. We also own the field to one side of us (0.6 acres) that has road frontage on the main village road.
We would like to close off our house on the estate side by way of a hedge and apply for a new private entrance/driveway from the road.
The existing ditch that is a boundary to the road leaves poor visibility and we would be willing to step back a new boundary to allow the council to take this for a footpath in future.
Firstly is it possible to ‘ remove’ your house from an estate? How likely would it be to get planning for a new entrance?
we love living in the village. The house is perfect for our family but we do own the field and we would like to use it as part of our home. One of our children will most likely build in the field in the future.
I Hope someone can help please 🙏🏻

endacl · 11-10-2024 06:22PM

I can’t see a problem in search of the solution you propose.

11-10-2024 06:46PM

Do you think planning would allow us to ‘remove’ access to our house from the estate 🤔

endacl · 11-10-2024 07:20PM

Why dafuq would you want to?!? 😂

Jim_Hodge · 11-10-2024 07:26PM

If there's no existing entrance in the roadside ditch/hedgerow it's unlikely you'll be allowed open one. The simple solution is to ask the planning office.

who what when · 11-10-2024 07:55PM

I couldn't see the council granting permission for a completely unnecessary entrance.

Former Former Former · 11-10-2024 08:30PM

I understand wanting the new entrance, but why close off the old one?

11-10-2024 08:32PM

sick of sharing open spaces with people who dont contribute to their upkeep either financially or physically. People are lazy! Would prefer to keep our own area presentable how we want it.

Victor · 11-10-2024 08:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122710184#Comment_122710184

You complain that people don't contribute, but you see the solution as you not contributing either?

I can't see the council allowing this on road safety grounds - private entrance next to junction.

Note that a new entrance won't change your address or financial obligations either.

11-10-2024 08:37PM

everyone else’s dog **** at the front of my house. Nightmare at Halloween. Lack f privacy. Having to drive through and visitors driving through an area that is unkept because after 15 years doing it alone I gave up! Nobody wants to do anything. I would like my own entrance that I can keep as I see fit. It’s embarrassing how lazy people are. Some of there front gardens are disgraceful

11-10-2024 08:44PM

I have been the only person for 15 years who has kept outside shared spaces. I have created shrub beds, planted trees, applied for a hedge from co.co received and sown 200 hedging plants. I apply for the maintenance grant every year . We always pay our fees but some houses refuse to. I have watered, weeded, sown and cared for all on my own and I have stopped because when you don’t appreciate people they eventually stop caring. 30 houses and I was doing it alone. On 2 separate occasions people gave me a small gift as a thank you but otherwise 15 years and nothing. I think I have done my fair share

11-10-2024 08:47PM

my address is not a problem nor are my contributions to residence community areas. The people however are unappreciative and now I have stopped caring too it’s been just left.

endacl · 11-10-2024 10:23PM

Your address may become a problem when the postman can’t gain access to the letterbox through the not there any more entrance, and doesn’t fancy walking back round to the unnecessary new entrance for a long walk up the new pointless driveway.

De Bhál · 11-10-2024 10:33PM

Probably be easier to just sell the house you're in and build a house in the field. Or even better sell both field and house and move away from the estate but stay close to the village

mickdw · 11-10-2024 10:38PM

Send in an application.

If.there is benefit to the council re possible road widening at your field or anything like that, they.may play ball.

Get your local Councillor to have a look and do some research for you.

Big Bag of Chips · 12-10-2024 06:21AM

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12-10-2024 08:26AM

how do I do that please?

12-10-2024 08:36AM

we have a massive mortgage on our house have spent a lot on it. Converted attic into 2 big bedrooms bathroom and attic store. It’s a 6 bed house. Spent money on a new kitchen. Extension at the back. I am not sure we would get the value of it and we are in the village. Getting a site this close to the village would be impossible. If we were to sell and start over. We would never build what we have here and at our age get the same amount of money to start over. We are not interested in building in the field and the problems involved in that with objections etc. People are rotten, begrudging and bitter. I stopped gardening the green areas ALONE after 15 years and I am the ‘bad’ person. Can’t understand that

12-10-2024 08:38AM

Yes we would offer up to 2 metres on the roadside to widening for use as a footpath and better visibility

Spear · 12-10-2024 08:39AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122710967#Comment_122710967

There's instructions here:

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058239416/activating-your-new-account

mykrodot · 12-10-2024 08:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122710563#Comment_122710563

postmen have cars and vans these days! Especially in rural areas. He won't be taking a "long walk up the new pointless driveway".

Changing your house from part of an estate to a private entrance

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