18 April 2019 · Planning Committee
Field 124163, Bernahara Road, Andreas, Isle Of Man, IM7 3hh
The application sought permission for a steel-framed open shelter (11.25m long x 6m wide x 3m high at ridge) clad in dark green plastisol-coated corrugated metal sheets to store agricultural equipment like trailers, a telehandler, and hedge cutter used for maintaining 30 acres at the site plus land in Jurby and Sulby.
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The Planning Committee did not accept the officer's view that agricultural need justified overriding the presumption against countryside development under General Policy 3, finding the applicant had n…
General Policy 3
Requires development only exceptionally for essential agricultural operations outside zoned areas. Officer found maintenance of 30 acres plus other land justified need; Committee disagreed, stating inadequate justification to outweigh countryside presumption.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside unless overriding national need with no alternative. Committee found proposal adversely affected countryside without such need, conflicting despite officer's acceptance of prior buildings.
Environment Policy 15
For approved agricultural buildings, requires siting near groups, appropriate scale/form, landscaping in exposed areas, no residential impact. Officer deemed amended design sympathetic with landscaping; Committee saw it as extending warehousing unsympathetically into open fields with hedging loss.
no opposition; proposal should not affect existing site access and parking so no new highway issues
do not object
Highways Division and Andreas Parish Commissioners both have no objections to the proposed erection of a detached building for agricultural trailers.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionHighway Services does not oppose the application.; The proposal should not affect the existing site access and parking arrangements so no new highway issues should arise.
Andreas Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionAndreas Parish Commissioners have now considered the above proposed development, and have no objections thereto.
Andreas Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionAndreas Parish Commissioners have now considered the above proposed development, and have no objections to the amended plans as recently submitted.
