Part demolition, part retention and alterations to building to provide ancillary accommodation and garaging (retrospective)

Why was this approved?

• Countryside location and strict policy controls (GP3, ENV1, ENV2)
• Visual impact and design changes for rural character
• Ancillary use to main dwelling
• Prior refusals/appeals for tourist units
• Scale reduction and materials
• High Landscape Value area

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Decision & Reasoning

Policies Assessed (6)

Conditions (6)

1. 1

   Time limit for completion

   Within one year from the date of this decision notice the works to the building shown on drawing no WL/13/1296/2C shall be finished.

2. 2

   Materials approval - stone facing

   Within 2 months of this decision notice a sample panel of the proposed stone facing to be used has been erected on site and approved in writing by the Department. The approved sample panel shall be kept on site for reference until the development is completed. The works shall not be carried out unless in accordance with the approved details and thereafter retained.

3. 3

   Landscaping scheme

   Within 4 months of this decision notice a scheme for landscaping of the existing car park area as shown on drawing WL/13/1296/2C dated 28 September 2016 shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Department. Such a scheme shall include details of all walls, fences, trees, hedgerows and other planting which are to be retained; details of all new walls, fences and other boundary treatment and finished ground levels; a planting specification to include numbers, density, size, species and positions of all new trees and shrubs; the location of grassed areas and any details of the hard surface treatment of the open parts of the site and a programme of implementation. Prior to first occupation/use of the development hereby permitted, all landscaping works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and thereafter retained unless otherwise agreed by the Department.

4. 4

   Landscaping maintenance

   All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the scheme of landscaping approved under Condition 3 shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the first occupation/use of the building or the completion of the development or approved implementation programme, whichever is the sooner; and any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species, unless the Department gives written consent to any variation.

5. 5

   Ancillary use only

   The building hereby approved shall not be occupied at any time other than for purposes ancillary to the residential use of the dwelling known as Ard Na Mara House.

6. 6

   Shipping container removal

   Within one month of the date of this decision, or to a programme otherwise agreed with the Department, the shipping container as shown on WL/13/1296/2C, date stamped 28 September 2016, shall be permanently removed from the site.

Public Comments (3)

Consultation Responses

Braddan Parish Commissioners unanimously resolved no objections to the application on two separate occasions, and Highways Division stated they do not oppose.