20 July 2020 · Planning Committee
Land Adj To Seaview, Oak Hill, Port Soderick, Isle Of Man, IM4 1ap
The proposal involves repositioning a previously approved barn (15m x 24m, 6.4m ridge height, vertical timber boards, cement sheet roof) and manege (25m x 45m) on sloping fields behind Seaview dwelling for private horse use by the owners.
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The proposal is a reconfiguration of an extant approval (PA 17/00855/B) for the same barn and manege with no net change in development level, repositioned for horse/rider safety on flatter land closer…
General Policy 3
General presumption against development in undesignated countryside areas. Officer assessed the equestrian proposal as acceptable due to reconfiguration of prior approval with no new harm, private use, and compliance via conditions.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside from inappropriate development. Found compliant as no unacceptable loss of amenity, agricultural land, or highway issues, with limited AHLV harm.
Environment Policy 2
Protects AHLV unless no harm to character or location essential. Exceptional circumstances via prior approval reconfiguration; no substantial new harm to landscape quality from repositioned siting screened by topography/vegetation.
Environment Policy 3
Prohibits loss/damage to woodland. 8m separation plus CEZ condition protects adjacent copse roots.
Environment Policy 19
Permits equestrian development in countryside if no amenity loss, no Class 1/2 land loss, highways ok. A3 soil ok for horses; private use limits traffic/amenity impact.
Environment Policy 20
Presumption against large equestrian in AHLV unless exceptional. Reconfiguration justified by safety; no greater harm than approved scheme.
Environment Policy 21
Buildings must not harm countryside character re siting/design/size/finish. Barn design (timber boards, cement roof) reflects equestrian purpose; siting clustered near house acceptable.
Environment Policy 40
Prohibits harm to ancient monuments/setting. 70m distance, lower level, limited views; archaeological condition addresses potential.
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 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
Construction Exclusion Zone
No development may be commenced nor any equipment, machinery or materials be brought onto the site for the purposes of the development until the Construction Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has been fenced off in accordance with the approved Manège Plan, drawing 227/021. The fencing shall be maintained in position until the development is complete and within the CEZ nothing shall be stored, placed or disposed of above or below ground, the ground level shall not be altered, no excavations shall be made, no mixing of cement or use of other contaminating materials or substances shall take place, nor shall any fires be lit. Reason: to ensure the construction exclusion zone is effective at excluding those activities which may be damaging to retained trees by clearly marking the boundary of the area and preventing construction activity accidentally straying in to a restricted area.
Archaeological programme
No development of the manege shall commence on site until a programme of archaeological work has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Department. The programme shall indicate the degree of supervision by a qualified archaeologist and the exclusion zones for heavy groundwork machinery. The development shall not be carried out unless in accordance with the programme of archaeological work so approved. Reason: To ensure that archaeological remains and features are adequately recorded.
Private use only
The manège and barn may only be used for the keeping and exercising of horses and associated uses by the owners of the site as defined in red and blue on the approved plans and may not be used for any commercial use. Reason: The proposal is for a private facility and the use of the site by others or for a commercial purpose may have a different and potentially harmful impact on the surrounding amenities and highways.
Lighting restriction
Other than the lighting shown as to be attached to the gable ends of the proposed building on drawing 227/020, there shall be no other external lighting installed at the building and no external lighting installed at the manege. Reason: In the interest of visual amenity.
Only one barn and manege
There shall only be one barn and one manege erected and constructed on the land shown red and blue on drawing number 227/001 date stamped 26 March 2020. Reason: The application is intended to be an alternative to 17/00855/B and to ensure that only one planning approval is implemented in the interests of the visual amenities of the area.
no objection
Do not oppose subject to condition restricting the use of the facilities to private only
Do not oppose subject to condition requiring the Construction Exclusion Zone to be erected and maintained
Do not oppose subject to condition for archaeological supervision and restrictions on heavy machinery
Four consultees responded to the planning application 20/00361/B for erection of barn and equestrian manege: Manx National Heritage raised archaeological concerns with conditions, Senior Forestry and Arboricultural Officer requested tree protection conditions, Highways recommende…
Key concern: manège groundworks encroaching within 50m of prehistoric Bronze Age burial mound
Manx National Heritage
Conditional No ObjectionThe site in question is a prehistoric Bronze Age burial mound, and is probably more than 3,000 years old.; the manège - repositioned from the previous application - would come quite so close to the burial mound: the necessary groundworks will encroach within 50 m; if you are minded to recommend approval, I would suggest, therefore, that a condition requiring topsoil to be stripped under archaeological supervision should be attached
Conditions requested: condition requiring topsoil to be stripped under archaeological supervision; condition requiring that heavy earth-moving vehicles only operate from within the development site during the necessary cut-down, and should not manoeuvre around the outside of the site to the north, west and south of the footprint of the manège
Senior Forestry and Arboricultural Officer
Conditional No ObjectionTo decrease the likelihood that the proposed development will have a detrimental impact on this woodland I recommend that the following condition is applied
Conditions requested: No development may be commenced nor any equipment, machinery or materials be brought onto the site for the purposes of the development until the Construction Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has been fenced off in accordance with the approved Manège Plan, drawing 227/021. The fencing shall be maintained in position until the development is complete and within the CEZ nothing shall be stored, placed or disposed of above or below ground, the ground level shall not be altered, no excavations shall be made, no mixing of cement or use of other contaminating materials or substances shall take place, nor shall any fires be lit.
Highway Services Division
Conditional No ObjectionHighway Services do not oppose the application subject to a condition restricting the proposal to private use.; Recommendation: DNOC
Conditions requested: condition restricting the proposal to private use
Braddan Commissioners
No Objectionthe Commissioners had no objection to the following planning application
