Rural Housing Development Fees FCC

For many years Fingal County Council have levied a so called development fee for planning permission in NCD.

In 2010 (the last year for which I can find published figures) an individual had to pay €143 per square metre to build a private dwelling. This was broken down as €98.40 for roads, €49.91 for water and drainage and sewage and €23.25 towards Parks. ( Our road is 11 feet wide, a strip of old tarmac between grass verges, we are served by a 2inch water main, we don't have main sewage or a local drainage system: however we still had to pay the levy.)

So for a 150 square metre 2/3 bedroom house, every person who got a  Planning Permission, had to pay a development levy of at least €21,450 to FCC. 

I have checked planning files and can find much higher figures, generally from €30,000 to € 50,000.

Now The Incredible Hulk Hogan is blathering that people who have paid stamp duty when buying a house MAY be exempt from the forthcoming household taxes. 

Yes taxes, not tax, these Boyos won't stop at one household tax. Before you can say there's another water leak on the road, you will be paying for water, waste water treatment plants, (your own supplied - so called septic tank), street  lighting ( we don't have any) and rubbish collection by private companies at fees that would choke a brown bin. 

And then when the environmentally friendly motorists out for a Sunday Jaunt tosses his/her black bin sacks into the ditches, you will have to pay for them to be collected also.

Wake up and smell the roses, we need to make very sure that people who have already paid Monstrous Fees, for planning will also be exempt, from the household and septic tank registration fees?