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Planning permission for external window shutters?

  • 29-08-2025 10:12PM
    #1
    Amouar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭


    Does anybody knows if external window shutters, like the ones in the attached images, require planning permission in Wicklow?

    Thank you!

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Comments

  • #2
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    To the front of a house? And if so, in a housing estate/with similar houses around?

    I would suggest, technically, yes planning permission required.



  • #3
    Amouar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Amouar


    Yes, housing estate and all houses are new builds. How about if we only install them in the back of the house, facing the garden?



  • #4
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    I would say they also breach building regulations. Windows for means of escape etc



  • #5
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,753 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Have we suddenly moved en masse to Madrid??

    What is the point of those shutters in our climate?



  • #6
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,146 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123767977#Comment_123767977

    Security.

    They would be in breach of building regulations as pointed out by Gumbo. I haven't come across this before in relation to planning but as they aren't listed in the exemptions then permission would be required which I doubt would be granted.



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  • #7
    steinbock123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 850 ✭✭✭steinbock123


    I suppose that if you want them for security, you could always fit them on the inside.
    No permission needed then methinks.



  • #8
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,146 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123768155#Comment_123768155

    No but they still wouldn't comply with building regulations.



  • #9
    Deregos.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Deregos.
    Time to put childish things aside.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123768155#Comment_123768155

    That'd be okay if it was just being used for some illegal activity, like say a grow house, but it'd be awful ugly to be living inside with them hideous contraptions around every corner. My interior designer would never agree.



  • #10
    newirishman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭newirishman


    lived in a (then newly built) house in Monkstown, back in 2006. The street facing windows had such shutters.
    So they don’t seem to be violating building regulations.



  • #11
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123768458#Comment_123768458

    Does not mean they were not!



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