{"id":350991,"date":"2026-03-17T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350991\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:07:11","slug":"it-does-not-make-sense-to-demolish-it-couple-in-meath-planning-row-asked-council-to-donate-house-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350991\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It does not make sense to demolish it\u2019 \u2013 couple in Meath planning row asked council to donate house to charity"},"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\">Long-running legal battle comes to a close as High Court grants council permission to take possession of five-bedroom home\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The house owned by Chris and Rose Murray at Faughan Hill, Bohermeen, Co Meath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773763631_312_a2f2ba85-8f45-420f-b061-311e7dce19da.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)\">The house owned by Chris and Rose Murray at Faughan Hill, Bohermeen, Co Meath<\/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)\">In March last year, solicitors acting on behalf of a couple who built their home without planning permission wrote to Meath County Council with a proposal.<\/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)\">After numerous failed retention permission applications, appeals and legal battles, Chris and Rose Murray sought to come to an arrangement. And not for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-running legal battle comes to a close as High Court grants council permission to take possession of five-bedroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15008,42,807,3662,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-350991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-amy-molloy","tag-headlines","tag-housing","tag-housing-crisis","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350991","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=350991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}