DEC Officer Report
PLANNING OFFICER REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
Application No.: 23/00649/MCH Applicant: Ms Erin Cregeen Proposal: Minor change application to PA 20/00447/B for additional rear ground floor window Site Address: The Coach House Ballagawne Road Ballabeg Castletown Isle Of Man IM9 4LF Planning Officer: Miss Lucy Kinrade Expected Decision Level: Officer Delegation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 19.06.2023
Conditions and Notes for Approval
C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions
N 1. The following change is considered to be minor and is accepted:
- Installation of new ground floor rear window.
Plans/Drawings/Information; This approval relates to drawing numbers 010, 050 and 050A all date received 23/05/2023, and updated covering letter date received 06/06/2023.
_______________________________________________________________ Interested Person Status – Additional Persons
None _____________________________________________________________________________
Officer’s Report
1.0 INTRODUCTION - 1.1 The following application is to be assessed against the criteria set out in Part 3 - Minor Changes Applications of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 specifically Articles 21, 22, 23 and 24.
1.2 The application seeks only for a Minor Change (MCH) relating to an existing dwelling and parent approval 20/00447/B. - 2.0 BASIS OF APPLICATION
- 21(1) This is the only minor changes application that has been made in respect of any particular grant of planning approval.
- PASS - relates to 20/00447/B
- 21(2)(a) The Minor Change Application relates to the grant of planning approval in respect of a building
- - PASS - relates to The Coach House, Ballagawne an existing single dwelling planning unit.
- 21(2)(b) The application specifies what minor changes are being sought
- - PASS - the application form outlines what minor change is being sort and is summarised as; Installation of new window to ground floor of rear elevation.
- 21(2)(b) The application specifies why the applicant considers the minor changes to be of a minor nature
- PASS - received by email 06/06/2023.
- 21(2)(c)(i) The Minor Change Application does not increase the number of dwellings or buildings for which planning approval has been granted
- - PASS - remains as single dwelling.
- 21(2)(c)(ii)The Minor Change Application does not increase the net external footprint of a building for which planning approval has been granted
- 21(2)(c)(iii) The Minor Change Application does not alter the site for which planning approval has been granted and which was defined by a red line on the site location map by changing that line
- PASS - remains unchanged.
- 21(2)(c)(iv) The Minor Change Application does not make material changes to the vehicular access arrangements for which planning approval has been granted
- PASS - remains unchanged.
- 21(2)(c)(v) The Minor Change Application does not alter the conditions (if any) which have been imposed
- PASS - no change, the floor plans retain the space as part of the dwelling as a single planning unit as stated in C2 of 20/00447/B.
- 21(2)(d)The Minor Change Application is not be made where the parent approval is less than 21 days old, subject to an undetermined appeal or has expired
- PASS - original application approved 7th July 2020.
- 3.0 APPLICATION CONTENT
- 22(3)(a) Application Form
- 22(3)(a&c) The information in Schedule 1 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 has been provided
- o Site location plan (with red line)
- o The planning approval that is the subject of the application
- o Explanation of changes being applied for and reasons why considered to be minor
- o drawings of the proposed minor changes with buildings and structures amended to indicate the changes
- o Flood risk assessment is not necessary in this case
- 22(3)(b) Provision of other documents specified on form but not in Schedule 1
- - PASS - No other documents provided
- - PASS - Dealt with at submission
- 22(6) Such further info as Department may request prior to determination (has anything further been requested and provided?
- PASS - reasons why they consider changes to be minor provided by agent in email dated 06/06/2023.
4.0 DETERMINATION
- 23(1)(a) The Minor Change does not significantly increase the size or scale of the development in question
- - PASS - Development remains for alterations to existing garage into additional living space.
- 23(1)(b) The Minor Change does not significantly change the nature of the development in question
- - PASS - the development remains for alterations to the garage.
- 23(1)(c) The Minor Change does not result in an approval which, at the time of approval, complied with a Development Plan, National Policy Directive or a Planning Policy Statement, ceasing to do so
- - PASS - no changes to policy since original approval.
- 23(1)(d) The Minor Change does not result in new or increased adverse impacts on adjoining or neighbouring properties having a significant or disproportionate impact on the environment (irrespective of whether such impacts might be outweighed by other considerations)
- PASS - no new or increased adverse or disproportionate impacts on environment beyond nature of original development within the immediate streetscene or amenity context. The additional window would be at the rear and at a level below a rear boundary wall where there will be no public or neighbouring views and not close to any residential neighbouring property as to create any impact on the environment.
- 23(1)(e) The Minor Change is not more than minor and is not of a magnitude to warrant a new application
- - PASS - considered minor.
- 23(1)(e)The Minor Change does not otherwise fundamentally change the basis on which the grant was originally made.
- PASS - basis of original approval remains unchanged.
- 23(2) If it does not do any of the above, must then be considered. - is the application considered acceptable?
- PASS - acceptable 5.0 NOTICE OF DECISION
- 24(2)(a) Set out whether all or some of the changes are accepted
- - installation of rear window.
- 24(2)(b) Set out whether any elements are refused, the reasons for that.
- N/A _____________________________________________________________________
I can confirm that this decision has been made by a Principal Planner in accordance with the authority afforded to that Officer by the appropriate DEFA Delegation and that in making this decision the Officer has agreed the recommendation in relation to who should be afforded Interested Person Status.
Decision Made : Permitted Date: 21.06.2023 Determining officer Signed : J SINGLETON Jason Singleton Principal Planner
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