1 March 2012 · Senior Planning Officer (delegated under Article 3(13) of the Town and Country (Development Procedure) Order 2005)
Camp Site, Ballahutchin Hill, Union Mills, Isle Of Man, IM4 4at
Glenlough Camp Site sought permission to build an access track and 16 dedicated parking bays for motor homes within their existing camping field, located on the southern side of Peel Road (A1) near Glen Vine, Marown. The site is an established campsite in an area designated as open space and high landscape value.
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The officer noted the campsite is an established historical use with no planning restrictions on motor homes, making dedicated parking bays a reasonable provision.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside and ecology outside settlements from adverse development unless overriding national need and no alternative. Officer assessed the proposal as ancillary to established campsite in designated countryside, with modest impact mitigated by screening, not harming countryside protection objectives.
Environment Policy 2
Protects character of Areas of High Landscape or Coastal Value and Scenic Significance (site designated under 1982 Plan). Development permitted if no harm to landscape character; officer found proposal would not harm due to boundary location, tree/hedge mitigation outweighing loss of one tree.
Business Policy 11
Tourism development must comply with countryside protection policies. Officer applied with equal weight to other developments, finding parking bays reasonable support for existing rural tourism campsite.
Business Policy 14
Tourism development in rural areas permitted if complying with Plan policies including GP3, BP11, BP12. Officer considered motor home bays as quality accommodation support for established site, compliant with rural tourism policies.
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 drawing no.s 4, 5 and 6 date stamped the 18th January 2012.
Landscaping and tree replacement
All planting shown within the approved drawings must be carried out no later than the first planting season following the completion of the parking bays. If within a period of five years from the date of the planting of any tree that tree (or any tree planted in replacement for it) is removed, uprooted, destroyed, dies, seriously damaged or becomes defective another tree of the same species and size as that originally planted shall be planted at the same place, unless the Planning Authority gives its written consent to any variation.
no objections
Recommend approval, has no adverse traffic management, parking or road safety implications
