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Planning Permission for Building my own shed/worksop?

  • 05-02-2016 08:52PM
    #1
    General Grobel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 722 ✭✭✭


    I want to build a shed/workshop from scratch using timbre, non-permanent foundations, won't exceed 2 meters in height, and less than 6 meters squared floor area. I've about an acre of land, so I won't be disturbing the neighbors.

    Do I need planning permission for what is essentially a wooden box with a roof?


Comments

  • #2
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    What else is already built on the acre of land?


  • #3
    jeamimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭jeamimus


    General Grobel wrote: »
    I've about an acre of land,

    If youre in a rural area there are exemptions for 'agricultural use'. For example, storage of machinery/equipment.

    The structure has to be a certain distance from the road (i think 30ft or might be meters).

    In urban areas, you can build up to 20m without permission if its at the rear of your premises and a certain distance from boundaries etc


  • #4
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    jeamimus wrote: »
    If youre in a rural area there are exemptions for 'agricultural use'. For example, storage of machinery/equipment.

    The structure has to be a certain distance from the road (i think 30ft or might be meters).

    In urban areas, you can build up to 20m without permission if its at the rear of your premises and a certain distance from boundaries etc

    25 Sq. M assuming enough garden space left with limitations on height and windows facing boundaries in urban areas ;)


  • #5
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    kceire wrote: »
    25 Sq. M assuming enough garden space left with limitations on height and windows facing boundaries in urban areas ;)

    This is assuming this situation is within the curtilage of a dwelling house. If not, no such exemptions can apply. Similar for the agricultural exemptions. That's why I think it is important to establish what other structures are on this one acre piece of ground.


  • #6
    General Grobel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 722 ✭✭✭General Grobel


    It's an estate but with plenty of room between houses, all the other houses are near identical in terms of space and land. I've nothing else on site, and it'll be far away from any roads and at the back of the house.


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