Hi,
I'm looking at buying a house with a smallish East-facing garden. About 1m over the back wall there is a single story commercial premises (looks like a warehouse). The house is near enough Dublin city centre and the site behind is quite large and I imagine very valuable so it wouldn't surprise me, given the demand for housing, if the site was sold in the next few years for development. Being able to sit in the sun is very important to me and an important consideration in choosing a house. So, if the site was sold and a developer wanted to build a block of flats 1m over my back wall I wouldn't want to live there anymore, the existing structure is low enough that it has no impact on the sunlight the garden recieves. So, I'm wondering what kind of weight would be given to an objection to a development based on the fact that it would block my sunlight ? Is there any rule-of-thumb ? Would this be considered completely irrelevant ? Or is it entirely at the whim of the official who assesses the objections ?
Thanks,
I'm looking at buying a house with a smallish East-facing garden. About 1m over the back wall there is a single story commercial premises (looks like a warehouse). The house is near enough Dublin city centre and the site behind is quite large and I imagine very valuable so it wouldn't surprise me, given the demand for housing, if the site was sold in the next few years for development. Being able to sit in the sun is very important to me and an important consideration in choosing a house. So, if the site was sold and a developer wanted to build a block of flats 1m over my back wall I wouldn't want to live there anymore, the existing structure is low enough that it has no impact on the sunlight the garden recieves. So, I'm wondering what kind of weight would be given to an objection to a development based on the fact that it would block my sunlight ? Is there any rule-of-thumb ? Would this be considered completely irrelevant ? Or is it entirely at the whim of the official who assesses the objections ?
Thanks,