20 July 2017 · Delegated - Senior Planning Officer (Sarah Corlett)
Ballasteen Farm, Andreas Village, Isle Of Man, IM7 4hf
The site is the curtilage of Ballasteen Farm on the southern side of the A17 Road, southwest of Andreas Village, in an area zoned as 'Woodland Land and White Land' under the 1982 Development Plan Order.
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The officer assessed the proposal against General Policy 3(f), which permits 'building and engineering operations which are essential for the conduct of agriculture or forestry' in the countryside, an…
General Policy 3
GP3 generally restricts development outside zoned areas but includes exception (f) for building and engineering operations essential for agriculture. The officer found the access widening and wall replacement essential for farm operations within the curtilage, close to existing buildings, thus compliant. No tension noted as prior farm applications confirmed agricultural use.
Environment Policy 15
ENV15 permits agricultural buildings if need outweighs countryside policy, sited near building groups, appropriate in scale/materials, and sympathetic to landscape. The proposal was assessed as appropriately scaled, using matching smooth block and coping, with minimal visual change, sited adjacently to farmyard. Highways amendments ensured no adverse impacts near the public highway.
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.
Acceptable after amended plans showing gate set back to 6m and improved visibility for emerging vehicles.
No objection.
Highways Division deferred the application pending visibility splay and gate setback details, while Andreas Parish Commissioners raised no objections.
Key concern: inadequate gate setback and lack of visibility splay demonstration
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
The drawings indicate the gate being set approximately 4.3m back from the carriageway edge rather than the required 6m to prevent obstruction from vehicles waiting while the gate is operated; visibility has not been shown from the gate; The applicant is requested to provide a drawing to an appropriate scale that indicates the visibility that can be achieved over land within their control from a point 2.4m back from the edge of carriageway to the near side carriageway edge in both directions at a height of 1.05m; the drawing should also indicate the gate at a distance of 6m from the carriageway; Highway Services requests that the application is deferred to allow the applicant to consider the above
Andreas Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionAndreas Parish Commissioners have now considered the above proposed development, and have no objections thereto
