23 November 2017 · Delegated - Senior Planning Officer (Sarah Corlett)
International Business School, The Nunnery, Old Castletown Road, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM2 1qb
The proposal involves building a steel-framed storage shed measuring 18m long, 12m wide and 8m high to ridge, clad in green metal composite panels, located in a natural clearing within mature woodland 240m northwest of the main Nunnery buildings, which house the Isle of Man Government's Business School and University C…
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The officer assessed the principle of development in countryside zoned as Private Woodland, starting from General Policy 3(f) which allows exceptions for essential agricultural/forestry operations, an…
General Policy 3
Prohibits development outside zoned areas except for essential agriculture/forestry operations under (f). Officer applied the exception exceptionally to non-agricultural storage need for estate maintenance, deeming it sufficient to outweigh general countryside restrictions.
Environment Policy 3
Prohibits development causing unacceptable loss/damage to woodland of amenity/conservation value. Proposal satisfied as building sited in existing clearing with no tree impact, screened by mature trees, and coloured dark green to minimise visual harm.
Environment Policy 15
Requires agricultural/horticultural need for countryside buildings outweighing restrictions, sited near existing groups, appropriate scale/design, sympathetic to landscape. Need accepted for maintenance storage despite non-agricultural use and remote siting in woodland (contrary to clustering preference), justified by minimal intrusion and estate scale.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice. Reason: To comply with article 14 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No2) Order 2013 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
Restricted use to maintenance storage
The building must be used only for the purposes of storage for machinery, plant and materials for the maintenance of the buildings and upkeep of the grounds within the site defined in the application. Reason: the use has been exceptionally approved solely to meet need and its subsequent retention would result in an unwarranted intrusion in the countryside.
Dark green colouring
The building must be finished in a dark green colour as shown in the approved drawings and retained as such thereafter. Reason: to minimise the visual impact of the development in its wooded setting.
no objection
no Highways Involvement in the proposal
Douglas Borough Council provided a no objection response with a request for time extension followed by a letter of support, while DOI Highways Division stated no highways interest.
Douglas Borough Council
No ObjectionDouglas Borough Council has no objection to the proposals but please see our comment requesting a 14 day time extension to consider planning application 17/00951/B.; We request 14 day time extension to submit our comments in order to consider the application at the next committee meeting.
Douglas Borough Council
Supportthe Committee agreed that the Council supports this Planning Application.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionNo Highways Interest; NHI on 29-9-17
