Electricity Meter in an apartment - how to sub divide? Pre Pay meter?

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How do you think people rent out their homes when they travel, retire, get married, downsize? They dont go for planning permission each time. They register them with the RTB which does not even check if its subject to planning.
If you have rent a room they dont even check if its part of planning. They just give you14K a year tax free.

Nobody I know renting a house checks planning for material change of use which is what you are talking about.

Its true that historically anybody subdividing an existing home into multiple units didn't have to apply for PP, but if you do that you are supposed to meet minimum standards for apartments as if you were building a new home. Generally these days when people rent out their former home, they don't split it into sub units because splitting doesn't just entail splitting services, you are supposed to make appropriate modifications to ensure that fire & sounds cannot easily spread from one unit to the other.

We want to split our house into two units. Can you give us a ballpark cost?

Property Clinic: The plan is to split the deeds of our three bed semi and turn it into two

www.irishtimes.com

This might also be useful https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/6...-manual-for-the-reuse-of-existing-buildings/#