{"id":340393,"date":"2026-03-11T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:06:11","slug":"kerry-couple-who-wanted-to-convert-derelict-house-into-family-home-left-crushed-by-planning-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340393\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry couple who wanted to convert derelict house into family home left \u2018crushed\u2019 by planning system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The couple spoke about their devastating experience on the week that the Housing Minister announced there will be a relaxation of rules for building one-off rural homes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John O'Neill and Nicole Moriarty with twin daughters Ellie and Maddie. Photo by Mark O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7aad13d2-c2bc-4e26-af83-a9b5342f2797.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John O&#8217;Neill and Nicole Moriarty with twin daughters Ellie and Maddie. Photo by Mark O&#8217;Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Kerry couple who were \u2018crushed\u2019 when their permission to renovate and extend a derelict house was overturned believe the planning system \u2018has no bit of humanity\u2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The couple have called for an overhaul of the planning system which they feel lacks \u201ccommon sense\u201d and works against people who want to build a home \u2013 despite the ongoing housing crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple spoke about their devastating experience on the week that the Housing Minister announced there will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,3332,112],"class_list":["post-340393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-joy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}