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Building a front wall in a rural area

  • 14-06-2022 5:06pm
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    I bought a house a while back and the previous owners never built a front wall. The front of the site which is currently without a wall is around 22m. 2 different length sections with a gap for the driveway of course.

    I've found some planning documentation on eplanning.ie for the site but I'm not sure if that's necessary unless I want to go bigger than 1.2m. The document itself has some fairly standard looking info.

    "The new front boundary wall shall be of local unplastered stone. It shall not be less than 600 millimetres and no more than 1 meter in height viewed from the roadside."

    The permission was granted back in 2003, so would have that expired by now? Also according to this link I can build up to 1.2m without planning permission and that's probably enough but I'll probably throw something up to get a better idea of the scale of it. https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/planning_permission/planning_perm_altering_a_house.html

    Altogether the details are approx. 22m in length. A pillar either side of the entry way/driveway with the correct stability and design to allow a gate to be attached. There's no need for pointing unless it's a structural requirement. (Do I need to talk to an engineer about this or is it a fairly standard request that an experienced mason/builder will know the answer to?) I randomly searched around google maps and just found this wall as an example.

    From what I've read it's cheaper to build cavity brick wall and then tie the natural stone to it on both sides and the top so that's probably what I'll go for.

    Is there anyone here who could give an approximate figure based on those details? Is this the worst time I could be building a wall?



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