16 August 2018 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Sarah Corlett)
Baljean Farm, Baldhoon Road, Baldhoon, Laxey, Isle Of Man, IM4 7ql
The proposal involves erecting a steel-framed agricultural barn measuring 18.3m wide by 32m deep with a 7.7m ridge height at Baljean Farm, an operational farm holding on sloping hillside north of Baldhoon Road, Laxey.
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The starting point is General Policy 3(F) of the Strategic Plan, which permits agricultural buildings outside zoned areas if essential for agriculture; the officer accepted the submitted details of a …
General Policy 3
GP3(F) permits buildings essential for agriculture outside zoned areas; officer applied as starting point, finding proposal complies as justified by proven farm needs.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside unless overriding national need outweighs protection and no alternative; agricultural need here sufficient to permit within farm group.
Environment Policy 14
Restricts loss of best agricultural land (Classes 1-2); no loss identified or policy breach noted for this farm building.
Environment Policy 15
Requires proven agricultural need outweighing countryside policy, sited near existing groups, appropriate scale/design/materials sympathetic to landscape; officer satisfied need proven, siting/scale/form acceptable in farm complex with conditions on colour/finish, no residential amenity harm.
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.
Agricultural use only
The building hereby approved must be used only for agricultural purposes. Reason: in the interests of protecting local amenity.
Roof colour
The roof of the barn hereby approved shall be coloured a dark grey colour and retained thereafter. Reason: In the interests of the character and appearance of the site and surrounding area.
Wall finish
The external walls of the barn hereby approved (exception lower concrete walls) are required to be finished in Yorkshire Boarding which is either left in its natural finish or painted a dark green/brown colour and retained thereafter. Reason: In the interests of the character and appearance of the site and surrounding area.
no objection
supports application detailing farm scale, livestock numbers, housing shortfall and operational benefits for animal welfare, efficiency and machinery storage
Highways Division deferred the application pending further information on site location and parking, while Garff Commissioners raised no objections.
Key concern: Site location cannot be identified from the plans provided as they do not show a large enough area surrounding the site with road names
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
Highway Services Comment made Defer - awaiting information; DEFER on 10-8-18; Highway Services request that the application is deferred to allow the applicant to consider the above
Garff Commissioners
No ObjectionThere were no objections to the application
