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PLANNING OFFICER REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Application No. : 18/00222/B Applicant : Hospice Isle Of Man Proposal : Amendments to car park to provide 22 additional spaces for staff and visitor parking Site Address : Hospice Isle of Man Strang Douglas Isle of Man IM4 4RP
Case Officer : Mr S Butler Photo Taken :
Site Visit :
Expected Decision Level : Officer Delegation
Recommendation
Recommended Decision:
Permitted Date of Recommendation: 03.05.2018 __
Conditions and Notes for Approval
C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions
C 1. 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.
Plans/Drawings/Information:
This approval relates to the following plans/drawing/information:
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Interested Person Status - Additional Persons
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Officer’s Report
1.0 THE APPLICATION SITE 1.1 The application site is an irregularly shaped parcel of land that includes the buildings and associated gardens of the Hospice Care building approved under PA 05/00902/B, situated within the Noble's Hospital Complex. The building has a footprint that is highly varied in shape, with gardens to the east, beyond which is an agricultural field. To the south is Millennium Woodland.
1.2 The building has two entrance lobbies, 'Reception Area 1' being towards the northwest corner and 'Reception Area 2' more centrally located further south: both are in the western- facing elevation, with the former being the larger and more prominent.
2.0 DESCRIPTION OF THE APPLICATION 2.1 Reception Area 2 is the subject of a concurrent application (18/00223/B), which proposes an extension to provide a new reception area, including a revolving door and canopy which will extend over the road. To areas of planting are shown.
2.2 This application (18/00222/B) has been submitted which shows amendments to the removal of mini-roundabout and installation of ambulance drop off-area (which will connect to the new canopy). Wider changes to the car park are proposed, to create additional parking.
3.0 PLANNING HISTORY 3.1 Full planning approval was given under 17/00819/B on the 22nd September 2017 (with only the standard 5 year condition) for alterations to both the aforementioned entrance lobbies. These alterations appeared to be designed to enable non-stepped (or at least a smoother) access into the building as there were some internal alterations shown as well. These, however, do not require planning approval as they are entirely within the building.
4.0 THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 4.1 The site falls within land zoned for DHSS Purposes on the Braddan Local Plan. The proposal do not comply with two of the conditions as specified in Schedule 4 of the Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development)(Government Owned Land) Order 2012 (as not carried out by the Department of Health), it is still considered appropriate to assess the proposal against General Policy 2 of the Strategic Plan.
5.0 REPRESENTATIONS 5.1 Braddan Commissioners confirmed on 03/04/18 that they had no objection.
5.2 Manx Utilities and the DEFA Arboricultural Officer were consulted on 15/03/18 and no responses have been received at the time of writing.
5.3 DOI Highways have commented as follows (06/04/18).
The proposal is to amend the existing site car park to provide 22 additional spaces for staff and visitor parking. The application states that there are 95 existing car parking spaces on the site and the development would result in a total of 117 spaces being made available. 2 of the new spaces would be for permit holders only and 1 would be 3.6m wide which is wide enough for use as a disabled bay. The standard bays would be of a sufficient size of 2.5m x 5m and all would be adjacent to an aisle width of at least 6m which is adequate for vehicles to manoeuvre in and out of the bays. The turning head to the rear of the site would be maintained as at present.
Some of the new bays would be accessed via the existing car park access, with 18 of the new bays served from the existing access road to the side of the building which provides access to the rear. The access road would be at least 5m wide which is wide enough for 2 cars to pass
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each other, and its junction with the road serving the main hospital site has adequate highway visibility as observed on site.
Highway Services carried out a site visit at 3:40pm on Tuesday 20/3/18 and observed that there were only a few standard spaces available but the disabled parking bays were free. It is anticipated that at busier times all the spaces could be used.
6.0 ASSESSMENT 6.1 The works are partly required to facilitate the implication of 18/00223/B which has been recommended for approval.
6.2 The works proposed under 18As the proposed works would improve the appearance of the building and experience of its users, both in visual and access terms, it is concluded that the application complies with parts (b) and (h) of General Policy 2.
6.3 Some of the works are relatively close to existing trees but no trees are shown for removal.
7.0 CONCLUSION 7.1 A positive recommendation is made. __
I can confirm that this decision has been made by a Senior Planning Officer in accordance with the authority afforded to that Officer by the appropriate DEFA Delegation.
Decision Made : Permitted
Date: 03.05.2018
Determining officer
Signed : C BALMER
Chris Balmer
Senior Planning Officer
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