Gavin Lawlor

In relation to that, what I should say, and this is maybe unhelpful to people in terms of the cost, but there is a mechanism that if you're a concerned citizen, you've raised a complaint against something that's unauthorized, you believe it's incorrect.

There is an avenue open to you in the courts called Section 160 of the Planning and Development Act.

It's going to change in the new acts, but it's known as a planning injunction.

And you can go and seek your own legal advice and you can take your own court injunction to stop them doing something that you believe is an unauthorised.

You don't have to rely on the council.

If you lose, if you lose.

I'm slightly confused by this question because the 25 square metres relates to the exemption.

So in the 2000 Act or 2001 regulations, you're entitled to put on a 40 square metre extension onto your house.

so long as the back garden that you're left with is 25 square metres or more.

So what it would appear is that they can't claim the exemption because after the extension... They don't have the 25 square metres left.

So then just simply apply for retention permission.

I doubt in the circumstances, given what the extension is facilitating, i.e.

a wheelchair user, a part, what we would know in the building regulations, part M compliance.

It's an older property that needs to be converted.

for somebody with mobility issues, I very much doubt that's going to be refused.

So I would suggest that they do put in a planning application that covers all of the mobile homes.

Get all the mobile homeowners together to get a consent with an option to put them on or not, as the case may be, and ask for the planning permission for the duration to be 10 years.

That way you have 10 years for any of the homeowners that are included in the application to put on the solar panels or not.

It's the simplest way around it.

It's probably the cheapest way around it as well.