9 February 2017 · Planning Committee
Manx Utilities Authority, Isle Of Man Business Park, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM2 2qz
The site is within the high-quality Isle of Man Business Park in Douglas, featuring office buildings with landscaping and hedging boundaries. The proposal involved removing hedging along the northeastern corner facing the highway and a 20m stretch of palisade fencing, replacing it with 2m-high palisade fencing to match…
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The Planning Committee concluded that replacing the existing hedging with utilitarian fencing would be detrimental to the streetscene and did not accept that security benefits would be greater than th…
General Policy 2
General Policy 2 permits development in accordance with land-use zoning if it respects the site and surroundings in terms of siting, layout, scale, form, design and landscaping (b); does not adversely affect the character of the surrounding landscape or townscape (c); incorporates existing topography and landscape features, particularly trees and sod banks (f); and does not adversely affect amenity of local residents or character of the locality (g). The officer assessed the proposal as causing loss of hedging that softens the stores building and contributes to the business park's parkland setting, but recommended approval due to limited harms and permitted development alternatives; the Committee found it failed these tests due to detrimental impact on streetscene.
The proposal is to remove a hedge that borders the property at the rear of the footway and replace it with a metal palisade fence to match the existing. The fence will not obstruct visibility splays for the access to the site or at the junction. Highway Services does not oppose this application.
Braddan Parish Commissioners objected twice to the hedge removal due to loss of amenity, wildlife, and biodiversity; Highways Division had no opposition.
Key concern: removing the hedge would represent the loss of an amenity and would be detrimental to the wildlife in the area
Braddan Parish Commissioners
ObjectionIt was unanimously resolved that the Commissioners wish to object to the following Planning Application on the grounds that removing the hedge would represent the loss of an amenity and would be detrimental to the wildlife in the area.
Braddan Parish Commissioners
ObjectionThey wish to object on the grounds that removing the hedge would represent the loss biodiversity and a habitat for wildlife.
Department of Infrastructure Highways Division
No ObjectionHighway Services does not oppose this application.; The fence will not obstruct visibility splays for the access to the site or at the junction.
