5 September 2011 · Development Control Manager (Mrs P Faragher)
Ballateare Farm House, Lane From Coast Road To Ballateare Farm House, Jurby West, Isle Of Man, IM7 3as
The proposal involves modifying the vehicular access to Ballateare Farm House by removing or altering 82m of sod banking northeast and 48m southwest to create visibility splays of 2.4m x 90m in both directions, and widening the drive from 2.4m to 5m.
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The site is in countryside and an Area of High Landscape or Coastal Value, so Environmental Policy 1 prohibits development adversely affecting the countryside unless overriding national need outweighs…
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside (land outside settlements or not designated for development) from adverse effects unless overriding national need outweighs protection with no alternative. Officer assessed alterations to access as justified by highway safety need improving poor visibility, outweighing countryside impact.
Environment Policy 2
Protects character of Areas of High Landscape or Coastal Value unless no harm or essential location. Proposal harms landscape short-term by altering sod banks but essential for visibility/safety; reinstatement matches existing with landscaping, integrating medium/long-term.
General Policy 3
Permits development outside zoned areas only for exceptions like essential agriculture/services or overriding need. Access alterations deemed acceptable as essential for highway safety serving existing rural dwelling.
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Approved drawings
This approval relates to the alterations to existing vehicular access as proposed in the submitted documents and drawings 133 A, 134 A and 135 A all received on 19th July 2011.
Landscaping scheme
No development shall take place until full details of soft landscaping works showing planting along the sod banks have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. All planting shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the access being first brought into use. Any tree or shrub which, within 5 years from the completion of the development dies, is removed or becomes seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with another of similar size and species unless the Planning Authority gives written consent to any variation.
Do not oppose has no traffic management, parking or road safety implications.
have no objections thereto.
Comments received - no objection to merits but request informative note on cables/overhead lines and contact for site safety.
