Condition Discharge Memo

Department Of Infrastructure ### Memorandum To: Miss Jennifer Chance, Head of Development Control, or Mr Michael Gallagher, Director of Planning and Building Control From: Mr Edmond Riley, Planning Officer Subject: Condition Discharge Date: 25th November 2015 --- Re: 12/00999/C – Extension of domestic curtilage at Curlew Cottage, Scarlett, Castletown The above application was approved following a favourable assessment by a Planning Inspector appointed to consider the Planning Committee’s overturning of the officer recommendation to approve. The Inspector’s view was that, while the proposal was on the face of it contrary to Environment Policy 1, it remained in accordance with Environment Policy 2. He considered that, with a condition removing all permitted development rights, the nature of the land would not be harmfully altered by the extension of the residential curtilage proposed. This favourable conclusion was predicated on the existing boundary treatment around the land within the ownership of the applicant (which is a much larger field than within the red line of the application site) being retained. It seems implicit from the Inspector’s Report and recommended conditions that the boundary treatment to the extended curtilage would preferably be minimal in scale and appropriate to this countryside location. In the context of the above, the applicant has proposed “wooden fence posts, of standard cattle fence height, linked by wire fencing...[to] enclose the western, southern and eastern boundaries. There will be a single gate in the western boundary fence of normal farm gate size”. It is worth noting that the northern boundary treatment is already in place in the form of a Manx stone wall, punctuated by a vehicular access. What is essentially a post and wire fence along with a gate would be appropriate to this isolated, countryside location. As such, while it is unfortunate that no drawings have been provided, the explanation outlined is judged, as an absolute minimum, to be sufficient on which to discharge the condition. Signed: Edmond Riley Planning Officer Signed: Jennifer Chance Head of Development Control Signed: Michael Gallagher Director of Planning and Building Control