EV chargers for all new houses
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, has signed new Building Regulations (S.I. 535 of 2022) into law...
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- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
€2,400 grant for solar PV for your business, farm, school.....
The Non-Domestic Microgen Grant (NDMG) provides financial assistance to help businesses and other sectors to install solar PV panels to...
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- Jun 17, 2022
- 2 min
Rules for solar panels to be relaxed
Planning permission exemptions for solar panels on homes and other buildings are proposed. Houses regardless of location, will soon be...
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- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
Draft Fingal County Development Plan
Fingal County Council have published their Draft Development Plan 2023-2029 today. At first viewing it lacks ambition in the middle of a...
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- Feb 11, 2022
- 1 min
New Retrofit grant, what does it mean for you?
Good news this week that grants of more than €25,000 will be offered to householders to help pay for deep retrofits of their homes as...
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
Stages of Work.....what we do & how we do it
Stage 1 - Client Briefing The first stage of a project includes the following: Site visit & carry out an initial appraisal. Provide...
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- Nov 22, 2021
- 2 min
A Guide to Attic Conversions....
Do you know that you can convert your attic into a space you can live in? That's the good news, the bad news is that, most likely, it...
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
A Guide to House Extensions…...
Some of your most common questions answered: How much does an extension cost? You should allow €2,000 - €2,500+VAT/m2 for your house...
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- Sep 25, 2021
- 3 min
Planning rules in Meath for one-off housing to remain unchanged....
Councillors voted heavily to reject recommendation which would introduce restrictions on the building of one-off houses in rural Meath....
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- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
Fingal Development Plan Review, where we are at...
We are getting a lot of enquiries about the current review of the Fingal Development Plan, this is what we know: The Fingal Development...
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- Jul 10, 2021
- 1 min
Galway house voted Ireland’s favourite building
A house in County Galway has been unveiled as the public’s choice in the Irish Architecture Awards 2021. The Royal Institute of the...
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- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
Can I ask you a question......
Can I build an extension to my house without having to seek planning permission? The construction of an extension does not generally...
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- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Rural Housing, it doesn't have to end in failure
A comment we get all the time is that it's impossible to get granted permission for a house in the countryside because of the Rural...
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- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
Houzz it's going.....
Fingal Planning Consultants Awarded Best Of Houzz 2021 Coveted annual award highlights home renovation and design professionals with top...
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- Jan 21, 2021
- 2 min
Planning system delaying efforts to meet housing demand
Problems with the country's planning system are causing significant delays in the delivery of new homes, a new report from the Irish...
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- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Here we go again....
Non-essential construction to cease at 6pm on Friday The Cabinet has decided that non-essential construction will stop at 6pm on Friday...
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- Nov 10, 2020
- 1 min
The White House & the Irish Connection
Joe Biden's Irish connections are well documented, but what about the Irish connection to the White House itself? James Hoban was born in...
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- Oct 8, 2020
- 1 min
Out of an abundance of caution....
In light of the most recent Government advice regarding COVID-19, the offices of Fingal Planning Consultants will be closed to members of...
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- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
Would you build a house without planning permission?
We often get asked what can happen if we just build without getting planning permission? We came across this story recently, while it...
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- Sep 7, 2020
- 1 min
For he's a jolly good Fellow....
Top of my To Do List during lockdown was to upgrade my CABE membership to Fellow, delighted to get this in the post recently
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