15 June 2021 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Abigail Morgan)
Douglas Castle, Fort Anne Road, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM1 5bn
The proposal involves demolishing a later unsympathetic pantry extension and replacing it with a two-storey tower and single-storey extension designed to replicate the original Romantic Gothick style of Harold Tower, a mid-19th century villa with crenelated towers, Registered Building No. 179.
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The officer considered the key issue to be the preservation of the registered building, its setting, or features of special architectural or historic interest, as required by the Town and Country Plan…
Strategic Policy 4
Requires proposals to protect or enhance the fabric and setting of Registered Buildings. The officer found the proposals compliant as the sensitive design preserves the building's special interest despite changes.
Environment Policy 32
Prohibits extensions/alterations detrimentally affecting a Registered Building's special character. Assessed as acceptable due to subservient positioning and replication of style, not harming character.
Environment Policy 34
Prefers traditional materials for pre-1920 buildings. Conditions ensure exact matching of materials, joinery, and finishes to existing.
RB/3 General Criteria Applied in Considering Registered Building Applications
Considers building's importance, physical features, and setting. Officer weighed these against proposal, finding no harm due to replication and shielding.
RB/5 Alterations and Extensions
Presumption against alterations/extensions unless justified; special regard to preserving character/setting. Justified by removal of poor extension, sensitive design subservient to original structure.
Time limit
The works hereby granted registered building consent shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this consent. Reason: To comply with paragraph 2(2)(a) of schedule 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1999 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented registered building consents.
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.
Materials sample panel
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.
Damage repair
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.
no Flood Risk Management interest
do not oppose the application
tower extension at rear not open to public views; no intention to fell trees; extension below tree level on rock escarpment; replaces poor existing extension; existing circular tower on house
Mixed responses to the registered building consent application: Highways and Flood Risk Management have no objections, Douglas Corporation reserved comment pending bin storage information, and IOM Natural History and Antiquarian Society raised concerns about the impact on the building's layout and profile with conditional recommendations.
Key concern: new build will significantly alter the fundamental layout and profile of a Registered Building which has existed since the 1830s
Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society
Conditional No Objectionnew build will significantly alter the fundamental layout and profile of a Registered Building which has existed since the 1830s in a manner not attempted by previous alterations; Isle of Man Natural History therefore have concerns about the appropriateness of this proposal
Conditions requested: 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
Douglas Corporation
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
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
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Flood Risk Management Division
No ObjectionNFRMI - No Flood Risk Management interest
