Emailed comment relative to a planning application and submitted via IOM Government online services.
Hard copy for the purposes of the planning file. Regarding:
Case Officer
Application No:
16/00123/B
Proposal:
Installation of replacement front door and toplight
Address:
1 Douglas Street Peel Isle Of Man IM5 1BA
Applicant:
Aaron Greig & Kimberley Davison
Printed By:
DF
Date:
14th March 2016
Comment submitted by:
ISLE OF MAN VICTORIAN SOCIETY
Their address:
52 Alberta Drive
Onchan
IM3 1LX
NB For the purposes of assessing party status the person submitting the comment has been invited to indicate their relationship toward the end of the comment received;
The comment stated;
This property lies in the Peel Conservation area and is visually very prominent. The present shopfront is entirely inappropriate to the Victorian upper part of the building. It does however at least present a balanced frontage. The proposed door is at variance with the unity of the shop front by the use of a door with built in fanlight (described many years ago by Gavin Stamp as a Kentucky Fried Door after the Magnet catalogue naming the door style Kentucky). Georgian doors do not have built in fanlights - fanlights go above doors not in them. This property has a fanlight. The application presents an architecturally illiterate appearance. The present 'Quality Street' bow window and door at least respect architectural style. There is nothing in the application to say that the door is rotten or needs replacing. There are more appropriate door styles and this application should therefore be refused as inappropriate to the style of the shop front.
Peter Kelly
Caseworker
Isle of Man Victorian Society
Relationship to site: No direct interest
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