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Impacts On One-Off Housing Arising From Amended Building Control Regulations In Ireland, Myles Keaveney, Kieran Compton
Impacts On One-Off Housing Arising From Amended Building Control Regulations In Ireland, Myles Keaveney, Kieran Compton
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Single rural housing is very common in the Irish countryside. The Irish Central Statistics Office reported that one-off housing represented over a quarter of the total number of households in 2011. One-off houses are defined as occupied detached houses with individual septic tank wastewater treatment systems in rural areas (which include towns with a population of 1,500 or less).
The purpose of this study is to determine the increased cost to the consumer resulting from the introduction of the new Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014. In order to achieve the objective, a detailed description of past and current building control …