17 July 2020 · Planning Committee
Mount Murray Golf & Country Club, Ballacutchel Road, Mount Murray, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM4 2ht
Comis Holdings Ltd applied to change 3.6 acres of part field 510218 and part golf course to a new driving range with a 35m-long single-storey timber-framed and clad building (max 6m high) providing 10 teeing bays, plus tree planting along boundaries.
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The proposal does not strictly accord with General Policy 3 (development in countryside) or its exceptions, as the new site is not previously developed land with redundant buildings, but was approved …
General Policy 3
Restricts development outside zoned areas except specific cases like redundant previously developed land improving landscape/environment or overriding national need. Proposal does not strictly meet exceptions (new site not redundant PDL) but approved as one-for-one replacement of established facility with net agricultural land gain, reduced development spread, and landscape improvements over existing.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside from adverse development unless overriding need and no alternative. Proposal accepted as it relocates existing use without worsening countryside character, adds farmland, centralises facilities, with negligible impact due to siting/landscaping.
Environment Policy 3
Prohibits unacceptable loss/damage to woodland. No tree loss or impact from proposal; new planting enhances area despite minor uncertainty on 1982 plan woodland boundary.
Environment Policy 24
Requires EIA for significant environmental effects. Applicant provided Environmental Statement assessing negligible impacts (visual, ecology, flood, noise etc.), enabling compliance.
General Policy 2
Requires development to respect site/surroundings in siting/scale/design/landscaping, protect amenity/landscape/habitats, provide safe access. Proposal complies in principles via appropriate siting next to clubhouse, low-impact design, landscaping, unchanged access, no 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.
Existing site restoration prior to new use
Prior to the coming into use of the approved driving range the existing driving range shall be returned to agricultural use in accordance with drawing number DR-190131-02 Rev A and all associated driving range buildings, structures and paraphernalia removed and the ground returned to grass in accordance with drawing number DR-1901310-10. Reason: The application has been assessed on a one for one basis only and in the interest of visual amenity.
Landscaping implementation and maintenance
All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details (drawing numbers DR 180424-02 and DR-1901310-10) must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development or the first coming into use of the approved facility, 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 external lighting
There shall be no external lighting installed at the site. Reason: The application did not including any external lighting or a lighting scheme and therefore no assessment has been undertaken in this respect. Any external lighting would need to be considered as part of a separate planning application.
no objection
Do not oppose
no objections
Santon Commissioners, DOI Highways Division, and DEFA Forestry all raised no objections to application 19/01376/B or related variants.
Santon Commissioners
No Objection*No objection.*
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not oppose; DNO
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionRecommendation: DNO
DEFA Forestry
No ObjectionAs there is no proposed tree removal and no foreseeable impact to existing trees, the department has no concerns.; The replanting proposal, according to the detail provided, poses no issues from the department's point of view.
