Temporary use of adjoining field as a camp site with associated toilets and parking for the duration of the week before the TT festival until a week...

Refusal Reasons

• ✗The site is not designated for development on the Isle of Man Planning Scheme (Development Plan) Order 1982: rather, it is identified as being within an area of High Landscape Value and Scenic Significance. The proposed camp site - its tents, motorhomes, parked vehicles and mobile shower and toilet units will be visible and would have a harmful impact on the countryside, contrary to Environment Policies 1 and 2 and General Policy 3 and General Policy 2b and g. It is not considered that there is sufficient justification for setting aside this objection, given the number of existing approved campsites and the absence of evidence that there is a need for any more.
• ✗There would be inadequate visibility of and from vehicles emerging from the site onto the A5 which would result in an adverse impact on highway safety, contrary to Transport Policy 4 and General Policy 2h and i. In addition, there is no safe footway access to the pedestrian crossing point to the east of the access which would provide safe pedestrian access to the existing footways on the other side of the road, contrary to GP2h and Transport Policy 6.
• ✗The application form is silent on the matter of the presence of trees on the site and the intensification of the use of the gated access by vehicles is likely to have an adverse impact on the trees closest to this entrance, either by the introduction of hard surfacing or through the compaction of the roots by vehicles manoeuvring through and past the trees. The loss of these trees would be contrary to General Policy 2f.
• ✗This site is not considered suitable for camping in that there are no areas of hard standing on which to park motorhomes and there are no facilities for wet weather accommodation, clothes drying or dry storage.