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Planning query

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  • 14-11-2019 4:36pm
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    muckyprawn
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I am slightly confused about the following regarding exempt developments i.e. 40 m sq extension:

    “4 a) Where the rear wall of the house does not include a gable, the height of the walls of any such extension shall not exceed the height of the rear wall of the house.”

    If the rear of the house does not have a gable, does this me that you cannot build a gable onto a rear extension that would be perpendicular to the house?

    The house is a regular bungalow with a peaked gable either end.

    I hope this is clear. Appreciate any feed back.

    Thanks


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    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,140 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    If you don’t meet the exempted criteria, you apply for planning?


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    muckyprawn
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭muckyprawn


    BryanF wrote: »
    If you don’t meet the exempted criteria, you apply for planning?

    Do you think that the fact there is a gable constitutes as a wall?

    The roof will also be no higher than the existing.

    If it were a hipped roof it would be exempt.

    It’s the gable part of it that is confusing me.


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    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    I've long wondered about that wording. It appears to say that you can't put a gable on your rear extension if there was not an original gable facing rearwards.
    I now work based on that thinking but I've a feeling this was not the intention of the wording.


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    woohoo!!!
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    muckyprawn wrote: »
    Do you think that the fact there is a gable constitutes as a wall?

    The roof will also be no higher than the existing.

    If it were a hipped roof it would be exempt.

    It’s the gable part of it that is confusing me.
    Yes, it would need to be a hippped roof to be exempt. The gable bit is also a wall so if that's what you want then planning permission required.


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    Calahonda52
    Registered Users Posts: 12,228 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    op, put up a rough sketch

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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    sydthebeat
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    Just build a hipped extension?

    Problem solved


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