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Building permit - covering side corridor

  • 09-04-2020 1:25pm
    #1
    crae
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭


    Hi,

    I want to put a roof in the corridor on the side of my building.
    Anyone know if I would need planning/building permission for that?
    Or if I can just put it up? (once these restriction lift so I can actually go to a store)

    Tried to google and look at gov pages but can't really find anything about it.

    Basically I live in a semidetached house. I have a corridor on the side of my building between my front garden and my back garden (pretty standard setup).
    There's a 2.2 meter high concrete wall to my neighbours already.

    So what I want to do is put up a roof between this wall and my house.
    (just bolt in some boards and some corrugated PVC roofing)

    So I can keep my bikes, bins, rakes, etc under a roof...

    //Crae


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  • #2
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/planning_permission/planning_perm_altering_a_house.html

    It would more than likely be exempt from needing planning permission.


  • #3
    wench
    Registered Users Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭wench


    crae wrote: »
    Hi,

    There's a 2.2 meter high concrete wall to my neighbours already.

    So what I want to do is put up a roof between this wall and my house.
    (just bolt in some boards and some corrugated PVC roofing)

    So I can keep my bikes, bins, rakes, etc under a roof...

    //Crae
    Where do you plan to direct the water run off? Into your neighbours's yard?


  • #4
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    wench wrote: »
    Where do you plan to direct the water run off? Into your neighbours's yard?

    They can run it to the front or the back.
    That's what I done.


  • #5
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    crae wrote: »
    Hi,

    I want to put a roof in the corridor on the side of my building.
    Anyone know if I would need planning/building permission for that?
    Or if I can just put it up? (once these restriction lift so I can actually go to a store)

    Tried to google and look at gov pages but can't really find anything about it.

    Basically I live in a semidetached house. I have a corridor on the side of my building between my front garden and my back garden (pretty standard setup).
    There's a 2.2 meter high concrete wall to my neighbours already.

    So what I want to do is put up a roof between this wall and my house.
    (just bolt in some boards and some corrugated PVC roofing)

    So I can keep my bikes, bins, rakes, etc under a roof...

    //Crae


    I done exactly this OP.
    I put a Fibreglass flat roof onto it. Laid to falls to the rear and connected the rain water gutter to an existing rain water down pipe.

    I added some bricks to the front to match the main house and added blocks to the side to increase the height so there's a parapet and the neighbour can do the same in the future if they want.

    I also put a garage single door to the front.

    I house the bikes, bins and my permanent plumbed in Power washer set up for the cars in there along with all my car washing goods.

    its considered exempt once you can keep the height to 3m flat roof or 4m pitched roof, area is less than 25 Square Meters, along with any other sheds so make sure you add them all up. The finishes have to match the main house though.

    PM me if you want to see some photos.


  • #6
    crae
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭crae


    wench wrote: »
    Where do you plan to direct the water run off? Into your neighbours's yard?

    No, my plan was to leave a gap of a few cm between pvc roof and wall to neighbor.
    I have an idea how to mount it.
    Then have a gutter running along the wall just under PVC roof to gutter that’s just by entrance to corridor in my front yard.


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