paddywhacker
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Have you consulted with a solicitor yet?What are my options? Can the council make me take the gate down?
No offence but I find it extremely difficult to believe that anybody would assume that one could erect a gate closing off a right of way without some sort of official permission being required first.I was having with dumping, anti-social behaviour (drug-taking & drinking) on the right of way to my property.
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And I had no idea you needed planning for a miserable bloody gate.......
Is that not an oxymoron? Isn't a right of way something that can be used by the general public?It's a private right of way
OK - my earlier comments were made on the understanding that this was a public right of way and would need extinguishment and planning to gate off like this. A private right of way may not require extinguishment but I presume that planning might be (and seems to be) an issue.Clubman yes, there is a difference between a public and private right of way. Ours is private as it passes across private land and is the result of a longstanding legal agreement between the original two landowners. Hence my decision to gate it off...
So far its worked and the place is all tidied up and clean then yesterday I get a letter from the council saying the gate constitutes illegal development!
I rang the guards who told me they'd only be too happy to give me a letter confirming that my actions have had a positive effect on the area - they've seen the gate and think it was a great idea to block it up, less nooks for the shysters to hide in.
Understand your frustration. Good to have the Garda on your side though. I reckon, as Gobstopper suggested earlier, a visit to your local TD or councillor's weekly clinic, armed with a letter from the local Garda, as well as a threat to publicise their reaction to your positive actions in the local paper might prompt them to file the matter behind a piano! It wouldn't be the first time it was done....
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