Planning Application Response

Email: [email protected] Officer: MB

Date of Response: 18/06/18

Date of Application: 01/06/18

Application Reference: 18/00532/REM

Location: Land to East of Old School House, Main Road, Sulby

Description: Reserved Matters application for the erection of a detached dwelling (relating to PA 15/00794/A)

Highway Comments: The previous 15/00794/A approval in principle application for the site was granted planning permission following an appeal. Planning condition 5 of that decision notice stated "Prior to any works commencing on site the visibility splays as shown on drawing 202 are required to be provided and thereafter kept permanently clear of any obstruction exceeding 1.05m in height, within the applicants ownership, above adjoining carriageway level. Should any roadside pillar/wall within the applicants control be required to be altered, this should be submitted as part of the Reserved Matters application." Reason: In the interests of highway safety.

The highway comments for the 15/00794/A application stated that the proposals were supported subject to the provision of visibility splays of 2.4m x 54m in both directions within land owned by the applicant, and with nothing exceeding 1.05m in height within the splays. The applicant's letter of 16/12/15 stated that drawing 202 showed 2.4m x 54m visibility splays. These visibility splays of 2.4m x 54m need to be drawn on the proposed site plan (not 2m x 54m as stated on the proposed site plan for this application by the current [different] applicant) and demonstrate that nothing, including any pillar/wall, is within the splays. If this is the case, then the plan must state that such obstructions or planting will be removed or reduced in height accordingly.

The 15/00794/A decision notice also included planning conditions for 2 car parking spaces to be provided within the site and for the parking layout to be approved prior to construction. The proposed site plan shows 2 spaces, each of at least 2.5m x 5m, which complies with the minimum size of a parking space in the 'Manual for Manx Roads' design guide. There would be a sufficient aisle width to allow cars to turn in and out of the parking spaces and enable cars to turn around so they could enter and exit the site from the adjacent highway in forward gear. The proposed parking and site turning arrangements are therefore acceptable.

Highway Services request that the application is deferred to allow the applicant to consider the above.

Recommendation: DEFER

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