Jose Manuel
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Hi,
We have received a planning enforcement following the building of an extension to the side and back of our end-of-terrace house.
The main issues are that the extension is visible from the street and that we are temporarily renting it.
The city council letter says that an unauthorised development is being used as a separate, self contained unit.
The said extension is attached to our house with a door that communicate (also has a door that takesit to the side entrance) , it has kitchen and bathroom.
The architect that we got in touch with, says that there's nothing to worry about, and with retention we'll be fine, an engineer that I contacted came back to me and after I explained the situation, he highly suggested to remove the kitchen.
There's little communication with the architect as we asked to see the letter that he already sent to city council and he didn't send it, I asked if we should take the kitchen away, and again says no worries, I would like to relax but it's first time it happens to us, we are not Irish and didn't know was wrong, the extension doesn't exceed the permitted size, even the builders and interior designer weren't aware that could be a problem because the extension is visible from the street, we're not sure if we keep this going or we should ask to another specialist on retention.
We have received a planning enforcement following the building of an extension to the side and back of our end-of-terrace house.
The main issues are that the extension is visible from the street and that we are temporarily renting it.
The city council letter says that an unauthorised development is being used as a separate, self contained unit.
The said extension is attached to our house with a door that communicate (also has a door that takesit to the side entrance) , it has kitchen and bathroom.
The architect that we got in touch with, says that there's nothing to worry about, and with retention we'll be fine, an engineer that I contacted came back to me and after I explained the situation, he highly suggested to remove the kitchen.
There's little communication with the architect as we asked to see the letter that he already sent to city council and he didn't send it, I asked if we should take the kitchen away, and again says no worries, I would like to relax but it's first time it happens to us, we are not Irish and didn't know was wrong, the extension doesn't exceed the permitted size, even the builders and interior designer weren't aware that could be a problem because the extension is visible from the street, we're not sure if we keep this going or we should ask to another specialist on retention.