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gerry2scopes
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Hi guys just wondering if I would have a case against my local Co. Council on the following matter.
Basically I bought my house as an investment about 2 yrs ago with the intention of selling on around now and using the rise in value to move to a different location.
The reason we selected this housing estate is that it was going to be small i.e. +100 houses and isolated from neighboring estates which were older. The local area was being developed with shops and retail centers and hotels and library so the investment seemed sound.
The problem is that the C.C. was supposed to widen a road adjoining the estate to allow access to our development but they never did it even though it was part of the original plans back in 2003, so we have to access our house from an older development +8yrs. I recently had to get a valuation done on my house for my mortgage and the auctioneer confirmed what i was thinking that the because we were part of the older development it was holding back our house price increase and the size of the estate is +300 houses.
When we were selecting our house back in 2005 we could have purchased anywhere in Limerick but we chose here because if the place had been finished correctly then it would have been an excellent investment. Now we feel we are losing out through no fault of our own.
As an example most of the houses that were in our price range of 200K are now valued @ between 265-275K and a development across the road from us where houses were 180K are now valued at 250K which is the same as us even though they are much smaller.
I was disgusted at the way I was treated by the C.C. when trying to find out why the road was never widened. The roads dept blamed planning dept and vice versa with no-one giving an answer. the heads of both depts have refused to reply to my calls and emails. They said last year that the road would be done early this yr, and this yr they said next yr maybe and that if I wanted to complain there was no-one I could go to.
I believe we have lost around 20K value on our home and I'm not being greedy but if we want to move then we will have to pay that 20K further on down the line.
If I could attach pictures I would to show you how poor the unfinished development looks.
Any advise would be appreciated as I am thinking of building a case against the C.C.
G2S
Basically I bought my house as an investment about 2 yrs ago with the intention of selling on around now and using the rise in value to move to a different location.
The reason we selected this housing estate is that it was going to be small i.e. +100 houses and isolated from neighboring estates which were older. The local area was being developed with shops and retail centers and hotels and library so the investment seemed sound.
The problem is that the C.C. was supposed to widen a road adjoining the estate to allow access to our development but they never did it even though it was part of the original plans back in 2003, so we have to access our house from an older development +8yrs. I recently had to get a valuation done on my house for my mortgage and the auctioneer confirmed what i was thinking that the because we were part of the older development it was holding back our house price increase and the size of the estate is +300 houses.
When we were selecting our house back in 2005 we could have purchased anywhere in Limerick but we chose here because if the place had been finished correctly then it would have been an excellent investment. Now we feel we are losing out through no fault of our own.
As an example most of the houses that were in our price range of 200K are now valued @ between 265-275K and a development across the road from us where houses were 180K are now valued at 250K which is the same as us even though they are much smaller.
I was disgusted at the way I was treated by the C.C. when trying to find out why the road was never widened. The roads dept blamed planning dept and vice versa with no-one giving an answer. the heads of both depts have refused to reply to my calls and emails. They said last year that the road would be done early this yr, and this yr they said next yr maybe and that if I wanted to complain there was no-one I could go to.
I believe we have lost around 20K value on our home and I'm not being greedy but if we want to move then we will have to pay that 20K further on down the line.
If I could attach pictures I would to show you how poor the unfinished development looks.
Any advise would be appreciated as I am thinking of building a case against the C.C.
G2S