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Hi folks,
Just wondering if someone could please advise re a planning issue (apologies in advance for length of this post)
I've reviewed the relevant documentation on the county council/ environ.ie website but I'm still not sure.
I recently built an extension to the rear of my property.
This was exempt from planning, although we advised both neighbours beforehand,
and told them that if they had any concerns to please contact us and we would resolve them.
Semi D house, the neighbour adjoining had no issues.
The folks on the other side did have some complaints as we recently found out, but they never raised them with us (dirt, noise etc while building)
There is a patch of grass about 2 feet wide on each side of the boundary at the front of the house.
There is a wall between the alleyways and a fence to the rear between the houses but only a concrete lip at ground level separating the grass patches.
This is not the attached house but the other side.
My driveway is one side of this grass, theirs on the other.
The builder destroyed this grass over the course of the few months (my side only, I warned him not to walk on theirs),
so I opted to cover mine with concrete as it had become a mud patch.
The only problem is that there was always an incline from my driveway to theirs (our house is higher)
and therefore water naturally flowed from our driveway to our grass patch, to their grass and in very heavy rain possibly on to their driveway.
This is/ was resolved by maintaining drains/ keeping them free from silt buildup etc.
I'm not saying that all water that falls on the driveway flows to their grass, the driveway itself has adequate drainage. But the water that would have fallen on/ drained into the grass patch would not potentially move to their grass.
I guess this has potentially made an existing problem slightly worse.
I engaged a tradesman to have a look, he said he could raise the boundary marker by an inch or two thereby insuring that the water would not flow from one property to the other.
Since the problem already existed I offered to pay half the cost, less than 100 euro each.
Now my questions:
1. Was I in breach of planning regs by widening the driveway?
2. What's best practice in this type of situation? Has anyone been in a similar situation?
I was on the verge of just saying I'd pay for it altogether, for the sake of peace, but then the neighbour threatened my wife and I with physical violence so I doubt a reconcillatory route will be happening. It's pretty sad that a small problem that would have been resolved at less cost than 200 euro has led to threats of violence but this is where I now am unfortunately.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Just wondering if someone could please advise re a planning issue (apologies in advance for length of this post)
I've reviewed the relevant documentation on the county council/ environ.ie website but I'm still not sure.
I recently built an extension to the rear of my property.
This was exempt from planning, although we advised both neighbours beforehand,
and told them that if they had any concerns to please contact us and we would resolve them.
Semi D house, the neighbour adjoining had no issues.
The folks on the other side did have some complaints as we recently found out, but they never raised them with us (dirt, noise etc while building)
There is a patch of grass about 2 feet wide on each side of the boundary at the front of the house.
There is a wall between the alleyways and a fence to the rear between the houses but only a concrete lip at ground level separating the grass patches.
This is not the attached house but the other side.
My driveway is one side of this grass, theirs on the other.
The builder destroyed this grass over the course of the few months (my side only, I warned him not to walk on theirs),
so I opted to cover mine with concrete as it had become a mud patch.
The only problem is that there was always an incline from my driveway to theirs (our house is higher)
and therefore water naturally flowed from our driveway to our grass patch, to their grass and in very heavy rain possibly on to their driveway.
This is/ was resolved by maintaining drains/ keeping them free from silt buildup etc.
I'm not saying that all water that falls on the driveway flows to their grass, the driveway itself has adequate drainage. But the water that would have fallen on/ drained into the grass patch would not potentially move to their grass.
I guess this has potentially made an existing problem slightly worse.
I engaged a tradesman to have a look, he said he could raise the boundary marker by an inch or two thereby insuring that the water would not flow from one property to the other.
Since the problem already existed I offered to pay half the cost, less than 100 euro each.
Now my questions:
1. Was I in breach of planning regs by widening the driveway?
2. What's best practice in this type of situation? Has anyone been in a similar situation?
I was on the verge of just saying I'd pay for it altogether, for the sake of peace, but then the neighbour threatened my wife and I with physical violence so I doubt a reconcillatory route will be happening. It's pretty sad that a small problem that would have been resolved at less cost than 200 euro has led to threats of violence but this is where I now am unfortunately.
Any advice would be appreciated.
