15 June 2021 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Abigail Morgan)
Douglas Castle, Fort Anne Road, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM1 5bn
The site is Harold Tower, a mid-19th century villa and registered building (No. 179) on Fort Anne Road in Douglas, not within a conservation area. The proposal involves removing a later unsympathetic pantry extension and replacing it with a two-storey tower and single-storey extension designed to replicate the original…
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The proposals were assessed against policies requiring special regard to preserving the registered building's special architectural or historic interest and setting, including Strategic Policy 4, Gene…
General Policy 2
Requires development to respect site/surroundings in scale, form, design, and not adversely affect amenity, views, or character. Proposal complied as additions subservient, no neighbour amenity harm, and no adverse public sea views impact.
Strategic Policy 4
Requires protection/enhancement of Registered Buildings' fabric and setting. Achieved through design replication, material conditions, and damage protection condition.
Environment Policy 32
Prohibits extensions/alterations detrimentally affecting Registered Building's special interest character. Officer confirmed no detrimental effect due to subservience and stylistic match.
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 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
Repair damage to registered building
Any damage to the registered building during the course of the works hereby approved shall be made good upon completion of said works. All making good works shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Department and thereafter implemented within time period to be agreed with the Department. Reason: to ensure the satisfactory preservation of this registered building.
Joinery matching
All new external joinery work shall match exactly the materials, finish, dimensions and profiles of the existing joinery work. Reason: To ensure the satisfactory preservation of this registered building.
Sample panel of materials
No development shall commence until a sample panel of all external facing materials to be used has been erected on site and approved in writing by the Department. The approved sample panel shall be kept on site for reference until the development is completed. The development shall not be carried out unless in accordance with the approved details. Reason: To ensure the satisfactory preservation of this registered building.
Materials matching
All external facing and roofing materials to be used shall match those of the existing building in respect of type, size, colour, bond, pointing, coursing, jointing, profile and texture. Reason: To ensure the satisfactory preservation of this registered building.
no Flood Risk Management interest
do not oppose the application
Mixed responses with Highways and Flood Risk Management having no objections, Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society raising heritage concerns, and Douglas Borough Council requesting additional bin storage information without final comment.
Key concern: new build will significantly alter the fundamental layout and profile of a Registered Building
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionAfter reviewing this Application, Highway Services find it to have no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network efficiency and /or parking.; Do not oppose
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Flood Risk Management Division
No CommentNFRMI; No Flood Risk Management interest
Douglas Borough Council
No CommentCouncil officers would kindly ask that the applicant provides some additional information regarding the current bin storage and proposed changes to the existing storage.; The above planning application currently does not clarify as to where any waste receptacles will be stored.
Douglas Borough Council
No CommentThe Council has asked for additional information regarding bin storage for PA 21/00245/GB and PA 21/00246/CON (related) Harold Tower and would kindly ask that comments can be reserved on this application until such a time that the information has been provided by the applicant.
Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society
ObjectionIsle of Man Natural History therefore have concerns about the appropriateness of this proposal.; Douglas Head Quarries from which it is most likely this stone was originally obtained have long since ceased to operate and therefore the existence of matching stone in appropriate quantities has to be questioned.
Conditions requested: conditions relating to samples of stone to be used in the extension, if this is not obtained from demolition of part of the existing, to be supplied to the Planning Committee for approval prior to the demolition of any of the existing building
