17 April 2018 · Council of Ministers
Kates Cottage, Mountain Road, Creg Ny Baa, Onchan, Isle Of Man, IM4 5bp
The proposal involves installing a BioDisc sewage treatment plant (1.4m deep, 1.9m diameter) on part of an adjacent field owned by DEFA, outside the curtilage of Kate's Cottage (a Registered Building), to serve the property with modern wastewater treatment, connected via a 100mm underground pipe requiring temporary rem…
Click a button above to find applications similar to this one.
See how this application compares to similar ones — policies, conditions, and outcomes side by side.
The Council of Ministers considered the Planning Inspector's recommendations, who agreed with DEFA Planning that the BioDisc plant would be largely underground and screened by the Manx stone boundary …
Environment Policy 1
Protects the countryside and its ecology outside settlements. The officer assessed that the largely underground BioDisc plant, screened by the boundary wall, would result in little visual impact on public views, thus complying with the policy.
Environment Policy 7
Safeguards watercourses from harm due to pollution from development and normally resists development within 8m of any watercourse. Compliance achieved via a condition for an approved construction method statement to protect fish populations from sediment, concrete or other harmful materials entering the watercourse during construction.
General Policy 3
Resists rural development with certain exceptions, none expressly covering this proposal. In principle capable of refusal, but conflict outweighed by benefits of providing modern sewage treatment to replace existing septic tank.
Strategic Policy 4
Requires development to protect the fabric and setting of Registered Buildings and avoid unacceptable environmental pollution. Proposal complies as plant is outside curtilage and wall reinstatement protects character.
Environment Policy 32
Resists detrimental alterations to Registered Buildings. Minimal impact on Kate's Cottage character with pipe installation and wall reinstatement condition.
Environment Policy 34
Resists detrimental alterations to Registered Buildings and requires traditional materials, supported by PPS1/01. Wall to be reinstated using original Manx stone.
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this 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.
Construction method statement for watercourse protection
The development hereby approved shall not commence until a method statement has been submitted to and approved by the Planning Authority which ensures that the fish populations downstream of the site are protected from sediment, concrete or other harmful materials that could enter the watercourse, which passes through the site, during the construction period of the development and the development shall be carried out only in accordance with the method statement approved. Reason: To safeguard the nearby watercourse from pollution.
recommend approval, subject to a condition to protect the environment
recommends a condition to secure compliance with an approved construction method statement to ensure protection of fish populations within the watercourse downstream of the site
DEFA Fisheries has no objection subject to a condition requiring approved method statements for construction works to protect downstream fish populations; Onchan District Commissioners support approval subject to environmental conditions being complied with; Highways Division has no highways interest.
Key concern: protect downstream fish populations from sediment, concrete or other harmful materials entering the watercourse
DEFA Fisheries
Conditional No ObjectionFisheries, DEFA has no objection to this proposal providing the following condition is met; Reason: to allow the provision of advice on suitable methods, in order to reduce the possibility of injury or disturbance of fish within the watercourse downstream of the proposed site.
Conditions requested: Excavation and construction works to install the sewage treatment plant must be conducted according to written method statements approved in writing by the Department in advance of the commencement of works.
Onchan District Commissioners
SupportThe Commissioners would recommend that the application be APPROVED for planning purposes subject to the following conditions:- "All environmental conditions being complied with."
Conditions requested: All environmental conditions being complied with.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionNo Highways Interest; NHI on NHI
