Have permission but cannot get it in writing to wrap front of house?Anyone help please

We did our retrofit in 2023, it had a red brick finish. Now it doesn't. (and looks all the better for it)

We neither sought permission nor received any complaints from the neighbours!
 
Truffade said:
We did our retrofit in 2023, it had a red brick finish. Now it doesn't. (and looks all the better for it)

We neither sought permission nor received any complaints from the neighbours!
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It's the planning authority who have the say there, not your neighbours. If you go to sell, you may find yourself having to seek retention permission. Most banks and solicitors now insist on seeing proof of compliance of any works before they will allow a purchase go through.
 
billmurray said:
Was speaking to a cork council chap and he's sending a map pack for me to fill in and he thinks there should be no problem's after that, finally maybe a bit of light at the end of the tunnel,was told not except even with section 5 by one person in CCC but just now was speaking to another fella who sending this map pack.......Every person i talk to has told me different things

Did you need a section 5 all no?Thats mad because your in the same boat as me
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Nope and I spoke to a few other people who did this on the street and spoke to the contractor out of curiosity when he was back touching something up and no one has ever heard of it as a necessity.
 
thedaddyman said:
Nope and I spoke to a few other people who did this on the street and spoke to the contractor out of curiosity when he was back touching something up and no one has ever heard of it as a necessity.
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There have been a few enforcement orders issued in recent years including where people insulated over pebble dash. It's long established that you must maintain the 'character' when installing or planning is required. A section 5 declaration is pretty easy to request and ensures you have evidence of compliance when coming to sell or seek planning permission for any future works.

Many contractors will tell you it's fine, and you may get away with it, for now, hey, they earn more money coming back later to re-apply the finish. For the sake of not submitting an application, do you really want to risk the problems others are reporting when it comes to sell with unauthorised development?
 
The law is you can't change the appearance of the front of your house without planning permission.

This guy could comply with that restriction by simply putting stick on imitation red brick where the external insulation covered the red brick. They're literally available on Amazon, a brand called elastolith.

But it's extremely petty of SDCC to be taking enforcement action even so.
 
Sorry Sue Ellen, I dont seem to be ale to quote your post. But as posted above the guy involved in this story submitted 2 amateurish planning applications in the past and both were invalid and not "refused" as stated in the media a couple of days ago. He has now lodged a third application it seems.

Details of the 2 invalid applications were posted up on another discussion forum. One post showed a hand drawn sketch of the front of the house and with respect to the gent involved my 6 year old grand daughter would have made a better effort.
 
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