Homeowners and small builders in Ireland
Free check for retention permission in Ireland: exemptions, newspaper and site notices, drawings, and what council enforcement can still do.
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How it works
What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Retrospective planning statement door.
Modeled on: OPR planning leaflets 4 and 6; Citizens Information: Planning permission
From public data
is the window: the council must receive your planning application within 2 weeks of your newspaper notice
Source: Citizens Information: Planning permission
Answer a council enforcement letter with a retrospective planning statement for work already built in England. Free to read, pay to download.
Questions
Yes, you can apply for retention permission. Fees are much higher than for an ordinary application, the application is assessed afresh, and the council can still prosecute. Legal action must generally start within seven years.
Publish a newspaper notice and put up a site notice on or before the day you apply, and keep the site notice up for at least 5 weeks. The council must receive the application within 2 weeks of the newspaper notice.
You have 4 weeks from the date of the decision to appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála. If the council grants permission, it issues once 4 weeks pass without an appeal.
Related doors
What was built, and when was it finished?
What does your business do?
Where will the unit be set up?
Where is the construction project?
Where will the unit be set up?
Where is the property for the DA?
Answer it and ePlan opens the Retrospective planning statement door with your answer filled in.