17 July 2018 · Planning Committee
Optimum Dental Isle Of Man, Unit 1, Concorde House, Westbourne Road, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM8 2er
The proposal involves changing the use of a two-storey commercial unit in a mixed residential-commercial area from dental laboratory and office to a dog day care facility for up to 20 dogs, using existing floor plans with play areas on the ground floor and staff facilities upstairs.
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The officer considered the principle of the dog day care (sui generis) use acceptable due to the building's long history of commercial uses like offices, dental lab, snooker club and warehousing, desp…
General Policy 2
Requires development not to adversely affect surrounding character/townscape (c), amenity of residents/locality character (g), and to provide safe access, adequate parking/servicing (h). Officer found proposal compliant as no harm to residential amenity due to indoor use and controls, parking retained for short stays, and fits established commercial context.
Environment Policy 22
Prohibits development causing unacceptable harm from noise pollution etc. Assessed against potential barking; officer concluded intermittent indoor noise, attenuated by building, with management measures, not unacceptable in elevated background noise area next to bus station.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.
Maximum dogs
The dog day care use, hereby approved, shall accommodate no more than 20 dogs on site at any one time.
Operating hours
The dog day care use, hereby approved, shall only be open for use by customers and/or their pets, between the hours of 0700 and 2000 hrs Monday to Friday and 0900 and 1500 on Saturdays and Sundays. No customers or their pets shall be allowed onsite outside of these hours. No dogs shall be kept onsite overnight.
Parking retention
The parking area as shown on drawing 'Ground Floor Proposed', shall not be used for any purpose other than the parking of vehicles associated with the development and shall remain free of obstruction for such use at all times.
no objection subject to condition retaining the three parking spaces for customer use
Highway Services initially requested deferral due to parking concerns but later recommended no objection subject to a condition dedicating three parking spaces for customer use; Ramsey Town Commissioners objected due to lack of exercise area and potential noise nuisance.
Key concern: Insufficient and substandard parking provision with high on-street demand
Highway Services Division
DeferHighway Services requests that this application is deferred to allow the applicant to consider the above.; Recommendation: DEFER
Highway Services Division
Conditional No ObjectionHighway Services does not oppose the application subject to a planning condition...; Recommendation: DNOC
Conditions requested: Planning condition for the 3 site parking spaces shown on the proposed site plan to be made available for the sole use of customer parking on a permanent basis
Ramsey Town Commissioners
ObjectionThe Commissioners... have resolved to Object to the proposal; The proposal is likely to cause a noise nuisance from barking dogs despite the proposed adoption of a no barking policy.; It is considered therefore that the proposal in un-neighbourly and inappropriately in a predominantly residential area as set down in The Strategic Plan 2016 General Policy 2 (g) and (h).
