Hi All:-
A friend of mine lives in a cottage in Rialto, Dublin. All the cottages are single storey, most with small flat-roofed extensions.
Last weekend, over the space of 72 hours, an extension went up on the house immediately behind theirs, with a pitched roof, extending the full height of the house, and taking up the entirety of the yard space.
Now my friend can't see the sky from her bedroom (at the back of their house). She is not happy. She's checked, and they applied for no planning permission.
She wants to do things by the book and not provoke her neighbour. She has complained to the corporation, and they say that they'll take care of it.
I'm just wondering, however, what might happen, and what her best course of action is. I've seen a lot of threads here mention planning applications for retrospective retention... Is it possible that this guy is going to get away with this? Do the Corpo ever actually make people take things down? (I'm reading the new Frank McDonald book about Irish planning, so I'm fearing the worst!)
Your comments, as ever, are appreciated.
A friend of mine lives in a cottage in Rialto, Dublin. All the cottages are single storey, most with small flat-roofed extensions.
Last weekend, over the space of 72 hours, an extension went up on the house immediately behind theirs, with a pitched roof, extending the full height of the house, and taking up the entirety of the yard space.
Now my friend can't see the sky from her bedroom (at the back of their house). She is not happy. She's checked, and they applied for no planning permission.
She wants to do things by the book and not provoke her neighbour. She has complained to the corporation, and they say that they'll take care of it.
I'm just wondering, however, what might happen, and what her best course of action is. I've seen a lot of threads here mention planning applications for retrospective retention... Is it possible that this guy is going to get away with this? Do the Corpo ever actually make people take things down? (I'm reading the new Frank McDonald book about Irish planning, so I'm fearing the worst!)
Your comments, as ever, are appreciated.