27 October 2016 · Delegated - Senior Planning Officer Sarah Corlett
Ballamenagh Moar, Ballamenagh Road, Baldrine, Isle Of Man, IM4 6aj
The proposal sought full planning approval for a large two-storey extension to the northeastern side of an existing bungalow at Ballamenagh Moar Farm, including ground floor living/kitchen/dining and first floor bedrooms/bathroom with rooflights, positioned partly outside the current residential curtilage into Field 61…
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The officer assessed the proposal as effectively a new dwelling due to its independent scale, access, and accommodation, lacking agricultural justification or exceptional personal need despite the app…
Strategic Policy 2 - Priority for new development to identified towns and villages
Requires new development primarily within towns/villages, permitting countryside development only in exceptional circumstances. The officer found the proposal lacked such justification, constituting unwarranted countryside development.
Strategic Policy 10
Promotes integrated transport minimising car journeys, maximising public transport, and protecting highway safety. Site's poor access to sustainable transport options made it contrary, especially for a new dwelling.
General Policy 3
Permits countryside development only in strict exceptional cases like essential agricultural housing. Proposal failed all exceptions, including as residential curtilage extension without need.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside for its own sake unless overriding national need with no alternative. No such need demonstrated; curtilage extension would harm countryside character via domestic changes.
Environment Policy 2
Protects High Landscape Value areas unless development does not harm character or is essential. Extension's design and curtilage impact harmed landscape quality and scenic significance.
Housing Policy 4
New housing in countryside only in exceptional cases like agricultural workers. Proposal treated as new dwelling without qualifying justification.
Housing Policy 16
Restricts extensions to non-traditional dwellings if increasing visual impact. Extension's mass, gable-forward position, and discordant form worsened public view impact.
General Policy 2
Requires development to respect site/surroundings in scale, form, design without harming landscape or amenity. Failed due to harmful massing, design discordance, and countryside impact.
The proposed development is not considered to have an impact on the existing highway network. Having reviewed the supporting information, the Department of Infrastructure does not oppose this planning application.
no objection
Garff Commissioners responded with no objections to the proposed extension to the existing dwelling at Bungalow, Ballamenagh Moar Farm, Baldrine.
Garff Commissioners
No ObjectionMembers had no objections to these proposals.
