Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Modern Construction Methods: Discussion
Mr. Des O'Toole:
To comment on whether you can build on existing buildings to increase the number of storeys, it is quite common in London where, or example, there are limits on the weights of buildings that can be built over the underground system. It is quite common over there to repurpose old buildings and create residential accommodation in industrial warehouses, for example. They build one or two extra floors on top because of the lightweight nature. Their regulations are slightly different over there but I think we would still be limited in terms of the current 10 m rule and the proposed 11 m rule. Height still overrules everything.
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