25 April 2018 · Planning Committee (Presenting Officer: Miss Lucy Kinrade)
Homefield Cottage, Barrule Road, Foxdale, Isle Of Man, IM4 3es
The proposal involves constructing an 11m x 7m steel portal framed building with eaves height of 4m and ridge height of 5.2m, finished in olive green, for private garaging of motor vehicles including Land Rovers used in motorsport and storage of garden machinery at the residential curtilage of Homefield Cottage.
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The officer assessed that the key issues were impacts on landscape character and visual amenity, finding the proposal acceptable due to its limited visibility from the public road (set back 45m with e…
General Policy 3
Prohibits development outside zoned areas except specific exceptions (e.g. agricultural housing, redundant building conversions). The site is unzoned white land; the garage does not fit exceptions but was approved on balance due to limited landscape/visual impact, site tidying benefits and private domestic need.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside and ecology from adverse development unless overriding national need. The building was found not to adversely affect the countryside due to screening and position, with no ecological harm confirmed by DEFA Senior Biodiversity Officer.
Energy Policy 2
Safeguards land within 9m either side of overhead high tension power cables from development. The building is more than 9m from the line running through the site.
Environment Policy 4
Prohibits development adversely affecting protected species/habitats or sites of importance. Site in Nature Conservation Zone but no adverse ecological impact identified; DEFA Senior Biodiversity Officer did not object.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice. Reason: To comply with article 14 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No2) Order 2013 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
Private use restriction
The garage hereby approved shall not be used for commercial use and only for private use by the occupants of Homefield Cottage as defined within the red line in the application drawings, and only for the storage and maintenance of motor vehicles and garden machinery associated with Homefield Cottage. Reason: To safeguard the residential character of the dwelling and highway safety of the area.
Landscaping scheme
Prior to the commencement of any works, a scheme for the introduction of additional planting along the boundary of the site with the public footpath to reinforce the existing screening of the proposed building from this view must be approved by the Department and the scheme undertaken in accordance with these details and condition 4 below. Planting should incorporate species found within the area and not utilise domestic or garden species. Reason: To safeguard the visual amenities of the area.
Landscaping implementation and maintenance
All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development or the occupation of the dwellings, whichever is the sooner. Any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed, or become seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species. Reason: The landscaping of the site is an integral part of the scheme and must be implemented as approved.
no objection to the planning application
do not oppose the current planning application subject to the addition of a condition to ensure the use of the garage as a vehicle and implement store only. The proposal is expected to tidy up and rationalise the site and it is not expected to increase any traffic levels and therefore acceptable from a highways aspect
Highways Division do not oppose subject to a condition restricting use to storing vehicles, garden implements and machinery belonging to the applicant. Malew Parish Commissioners have no objection.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
Conditional No ObjectionDo not oppose with condition/comment; The proposals are therefore considered aceptable from a highways aspect.; It is not considered there are any increases in traffic at the existing access as the proposal is to simply rationalise the existing set up / tidying up the back garden.
Conditions requested: The development shall be solely for the purposes of storing vehicles, garden implements and machinery belonging to the applicant and not for any other use unless otherwise agreed in writing by the department.
Malew Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionNo objection
