29 March 2016 · Planning Committee
Knocksharry Farm, Ramsey Road, Knocksharry, Peel, Isle Of Man, IM5 2af
The proposal was to remove the agricultural occupancy condition attached to the 1990 approval (PA90/01792/B) for the reconstruction and extension of Knocksharry Farmhouse on Ramsey Road, Peel. The farmhouse is on a rural site with around 8 acres of land along the A4 coast road, separated from neighbouring cottages by c…
Click a button above to find applications similar to this one.
See how this application compares to similar ones — policies, conditions, and outcomes side by side.
The officer noted the house is substantial with no associated farm outbuildings and the attached land is not managed by its occupants.
Strategic Plan
The policy resists removing agricultural occupancy conditions unless long-term need for agricultural worker dwellings on the farm and locality no longer warrants reserving it. The officer assessed no such need exists, evidenced by no parish applications for new agricultural dwellings in 10 years, land leased out, no on-site workers, and farmers uninterested in the house. This outweighed general resistance to open market housing in countryside areas.
Residential curtilage approval
No approval is hereby granted to the status of all of the area edged red in the submitted plans as residential. Prior to the occupation of the dwelling as a private residence, the Department shall have approved a further plan depicting a smaller residential curtilage appropriate to the dwelling and thereafter the status of the land outwith this area shall remain agricultural/open space.
do not oppose the application
German Parish Commissioners object to the removal of the agricultural occupancy condition as the land remains a viable agricultural unit.
Key concern: land is still a viable agricultural unit
German Parish Commissioners
ObjectionMy Commissioners object to the removal of the agricultural tie on this application as the land is still a viable agricultural unit.; If the property is sold independently to the land the Commissioners would not be in favour of an application to build a new dwelling to service the land when there is a perfectly adequate dwelling belonging to the farm at present and the land is not zoned for development
