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News: THE controversial 'locals only' and 'must speak Irish' planning rules have been challenged by the EU as illegal and discriminatory.
A landmark EU ruling yesterday will test the Fianna Fail/Greens coalition as the parties are poles apart on the issue of one-off houses in the countryside.
The move will put serious pressure on 22 local authorities to abandon their 'locals only' policies when granting planning permissions.
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 on: September 01, 2010, 01:04:26 PM 
Started by southernb - Last post by southernb
Do I need pp for a polytunnel on a piece of agricultural land owned by myself?There is no buildings/house on the site.The site has planning for a house under another individual which will shortly expire.thnks

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 on: August 30, 2010, 07:37:39 PM 
Started by southernb - Last post by southernb
Hi,
I am in negotiations regarding a site, no pp,agricultural land at the moment. It is still unfenced from a neighbouring plot of land bought by another individual with pp granted. I'm looking at an acre. How do you go about measuring an acre?I have copies of maps from owner.Anyone?Thanks.     

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 on: August 26, 2010, 05:41:03 AM 
Started by IRONPA - Last post by IRONPA
Nowadays many more custom homes are being built in America. The one reason behind the huge demand will be the love for ones own custom and culture. It is truly said that the design and architecture of a home reflects the culture of the inhabitants. Interestingly, the American architecture is a blending of more than one culture, good enough to confuse a veteran culture analyst. This might be because America was a colonial country and the influence of the colonizers, obviously have reflected in the architecture also. The Americans rather took all the best parts, mixed it with their culture and innovated highly new designs and structures, some of which are worldly renowned like the twin towers, which was once the glory of the country. The experimentation still continues.


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 on: August 25, 2010, 01:16:25 PM 
Started by IRONPA - Last post by IRONPA
Being busy has somewhat become habitual for all human beings nowadays. Man is running very short of time and is trying to gather much more in the minimum time available. This strategy leads to the foundation of competition. In the olden days survival of the fittest was a natural phenomenon, but today the ideology has completely changed, where each and everyone is fittest, and the world has become too small for co-existence. Earth use to maintain the definite equilibrium between the birth rate and the death rate, and even today nature has some upper hand on the strategies of human beings, but still the humans are fighting back to break the equilibrium as such. This is due to the increase in the developments all over the world.

Thus the maintenance of the feature of co-existence has become rare of a view. But this fine stratagem can be viewed at one of the finest metropolitan cities of United States, Washington DC. The buildings are being built again and again in the city, but the houses are designed in such as way as not to hinder the world class design of the city as a whole. The designing of the house as such is something to be worth studying as well. The houses may be built by different builders which completely depend on the discretion of the consumer, but all co-exist besides one another in utmost harmony, making the whole city atmosphere to be peaceful and soothing to the core.

Washington DC is known for its builders, and here the city serves both as a learning and occupational arena at the same time. When the builder will be in the intellectual workshop, of a Home Design Washington DC and its city life features will be influencing the builder, which ultimately gets reflected in his design too. Designing a home is above all finesse, beyond which it will be an utter failure. The designer should possess the knack and the dedication towards the work, which makes it all. The efficiency of the builders at Washington DC needs no more proof than the exclusively designed breathing buildings and homes, which ultimately forms the design of the city itself.

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 on: August 23, 2010, 01:41:15 PM 
Started by heatpumphelp - Last post by heatpumphelp
Hi,

If anyone can help me I would be very grateful...

I have an air-to-water heatpump that supplies me with hot water and also underfloor heating (UFH).

However, when the UFH system is set to "auto", the heatpump operates for up to an hour per day for no apparent reason - i.e. no room stat is calling for heat / it is not on a timer, etc.  I have been taking detailed readings to confirm this and discovered that it is switching itself on up to 6 times per day for short periods at a time.

The company that installed the system has gone bust, so I can't go back to them.

Many thanks in advance for any thoughts on the matter.

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 on: August 11, 2010, 09:28:13 PM 
Started by Martin - Last post by Martin
Hi,I need to get out of rented accommodation soon as my job is finishing.I have 30k and my Dad has a small holding where I can build something maybe? I was thinking along the lines of a log cabin but would 30k be enough and any suggestions on reputable companies or any other suggestions appreciated! thanks.


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 on: August 07, 2010, 02:23:20 PM 
Started by stan120 - Last post by Mike61
I had an extension to my house rendered with K-rend (around 80 m2). Around a month later I noticed several hairline cracks.
I got in touch with the contractor who said;  "it's nothing to do with me" That was on the phone without even seeing the cracks for himself.
Got a rep from K-rend to have a look and he told me that the best thing was just to live with it as it it impossible to repair satisfactorily.
K-rend is expensive and is supposed to be a top class product.
In my opinion stay away from it!
After all, you can get cracks in traditional rendering at a fraction of the cost!

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 on: August 03, 2010, 12:26:21 AM 
Started by Starfox - Last post by Starfox
thanks for the replies folks Smiley

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 on: August 02, 2010, 10:41:18 PM 
Started by Bob B - Last post by Bob B
Thanks alot for this,
Got permission so full steam ahead now.

Cheers

Bob

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 on: August 02, 2010, 10:38:30 PM 
Started by Starfox - Last post by Bob B
Hi,

A cousin of mine ran into the exact same problem recently.
I applied some dark window tint material to the interior of the glass, this hid the joist while at the same time not affecting the over all look of the glass. if you decide to go down this road, make sure you use a high quality window tint as the last thing you want is the material to break down after a number of years.

Hope this helps.

Bob

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