22 September 2020 · Planning Committee
Ballacamaine Farm, Ballacorey Road, Bride, Isle Of Man, IM7 4aw
The proposal involves demolishing the disused original farmhouse, annexe, and redundant milking parlour at Ballacamaine Farm and replacing them with a new two-storey 4-bedroom dwelling (225 sqm floor area) and associated farm office, to allow the farmer's son and family to live on-site for succession planning and farm …
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The officer determined that a functional agricultural need exists for on-site occupancy by the farmer's son to support succession planning, given the parents' age (71 and 67) and the farm's current li…
Spatial Policy 5
Requires new development in countryside only in accordance with General Policy 3. Officer found proposal complies via established agricultural housing exception.
General Policy 3
Permits essential housing for agricultural workers (paragraph f). Officer confirmed genuine labour need (0.56-1.27 units) for on-site presence during calving and business growth, with no suitable alternatives.
Housing Policy 7
New agricultural dwellings only in exceptional circumstances with real need demonstrated. Met by agricultural report evidencing family succession and labour demand.
Housing Policy 8
Requires occupancy condition restricting to agricultural workers/dependants. Condition imposed to tie dwelling to farm operations.
Housing Policy 9
Requires siting within/adjoining farm buildings, set back from highway, via existing access. Proposal overlaps footprints of demolished buildings, 170m from road.
Housing Policy 10
Design per Planning Circular 3/91. Proposal adopts traditional form, scale not much larger than replaced farmhouse.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside unless overriding need. Agricultural need outweighs protection; neutral impact as replacement in building group.
Environment Policy 15
New agricultural buildings sympathetic to landscape, close to existing groups. Proposal sited practically within group, appropriate scale/form.
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.
Agricultural occupancy restriction
The occupation of the dwelling hereby approved shall be limited to a person engaged or last engaged solely in agriculture on the Isle of Man, and any resident dependants or a widow or widower of such a person. Reason: The site is in an area where new dwellings are not normally approved except where an agricultural need has been established and accepted by the Department.
no objection
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division issued a 'Do Not Oppose' (DNO) response to the agricultural workers dwelling application with no conditions requested.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not oppose; DNO on 22.07.2020; Conditions (if any) DNO
