6 October 2017 · Delegated - Senior Planning Officer Sarah Corlett
Northern Management Ltd, 1a, Queensgate, Queen Street, Castletown, Isle Of Man, IM9 1pb
The site is a three-storey office building called The Warehouse on Queen Street in Castletown, attached to the Registered Building St Mary's Church and backing onto the beach, with four dedicated parking spaces in a nearby public car park.
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The officer treated the extant approval PA 15/00606/B for conversion to three residential apartments as a clear material consideration, noting that the current scheme proposes no physical alterations …
General Policy 2
General Policy 2 of the Strategic Plan is the primary policy for assessment given no specific Area Plan policies apply in the Mixed Use zone. The officer assessed the change of use for residential amenity, building character, parking, and transport impacts, finding compliance based on the prior approval precedent and over-provision of parking.
Transport Policy 4
Transport Policy 4 relates to parking standards. Four dedicated spaces exceed the required three, satisfying the policy with Highway Services' conditioned support.
Transport Policy 7
Transport Policy 7 concerns highway safety and access. No objections from Highway Services confirmed acceptability in this town centre location.
Environment Policy 35
Environment Policy 35 addresses impacts on Registered Buildings. Proximity to St Mary's Church (Registered Building No. 78) was noted, but no external changes and prior approval precedent confirmed no harmful impact on character.
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.
Parking provision
The four parking spaces shown on Drawing KV5/2 (date-stamped as having been received 24th August 2017) shall at all times be made available for residents of the apartments hereby approved, with a minimum of one space being made available per apartment. Reason: To provide adequate off-street parking.
no objection subject to condition requiring one parking space per apartment retained for sole use to meet parking standards
no objection
Highways Division does not oppose the application subject to a condition requiring one parking space per apartment allocated to residents. Castletown Town Commissioners raised no objections.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
Conditional No ObjectionHighway Services does not oppose this application subject to the following condition; Reason: to ensure that the Strategic Plan parking standards are met and that the apartment cannot be let without the allocation of a parking space.
Conditions requested: One parking spaces shall be allocated to the resident of each apartment and retained for their sole use thereafter.
Castletown Town Commissioners
No Objectionno objections were raised to these applications.
