cul de sac rights

Hi,

I live in cul de sac from date built in 1993. Council have taken into charge - that is cut grass,maintain lights etc. We have a green area that is bordered by council land with a hedge divid.

Residents bought houses in estate as it’s a cul de sac and had a green area and low car movement and thus safe for kids to play

Council are considering building houses on its land and are going to use our cul de sac as entrance to houses it’s building and also take part of our estate green area. The council land already has an entrance.

My question is can we prevent council using our estate as entrance and taking part of our green area.

Regards

It's not a private road.

You can object the normal way to the council's planning application in due course.

Alternatively you could get together with your neighbours and start a campaign against the development by lobbying councillors, TDs, local media etc. Prime Time had a feature recently about TDs who were strongly in favour of more housing, except when their constituents objected to it.

There was a proposed development in Carrick on Shannon recently with similarities to what you describe. A campaign successfully halted it before it reached the planning stage.

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Chanterlands said:

Residents bought houses in estate as it’s a cul de sac and had a green area and low car movement and thus safe for kids to play

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It should never be assumed that a cul de sac leading to land with the potential for further development will remain as such. It's common enough for such roads to become access routes for subsequent stages of development.