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Attachments:

ad Comment Response Shore Road Comment Response.pdf; ATT00001.txt

Can this be uploaded as additional information from the applicant please? I don't need it circulated.

Miss Sarah Corlett Principal Planner, Planning and Building Control Directorate, Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture, Murray House, Mount Havelock, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 2SF.

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‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐ From: Sent: 21 October 2020 11:55 To: Corlett, Sarah Subject: Shore Road Comment Response

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Dear Sarah, Thank‐you for your response yesterday. With regards to the comments I have written a response to those to try to help describe where the design has come from. Please see the attached. Regards

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RESPONSE TO PUBLIC COMMENTS 22 Shore Road Underway, Port St Mary. Ref 20/00990/Con & 20/00989/RB

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PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT This document forms a response to comments made upon the planning application by both Port St Mary Commissioners and by the local residents at Athol House. It is intended to describe the process of the design and to give some further information on the background of the application and indeed the history of the site. BACKGROUND The site for the proposed house has planning approval for a similar sized dwelling which was granted in 2007 and started on site, meaning that the approved dwelling could be built to the 2007 approved plans. Initially designs were drawn up for a contemporary house utilising the volume and orientation of the approved house through varying the condition During initial design development the planning department suggested that a full application would allow the orientation of the proposal to be turned 90 degrees giving the current "form" of the house complimenting the vernacular design of the sail makers loft and cottages. When reviewing the information about the site we were interested to hear that the site once had a structure on it and so investigated this to see if we could find any historical photographs or drawings. We found that there was a previous building on the site and have used this as design inspiration to create a contemporary version of the building that we have uncovered from around 1910.

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PREVIOUS APPROVAL. The approved scheme for this site is a three storey cottage with integral garage and entrance at ground floor with a kitchen living room at first floor level and a bathroom and bedroom at second floor level. The sea facing facade is approved in manx stone with concrete surrounds and dorma windows to the first floor. The inclusion of a garage door and the dorma windows are alien features to the more historic adjoining buildings and general streetscape. Though the vernacular use of manx stone as seen in the adjacent registered building is beautiful its use with modern thinner walls combined with concrete surrounds, a garage door opening and render to the side elevation would detract from the vernacular manx stone adjacent and as such we have sought to use an alternative material. The above approval drawing and context sketch illustrate the extent of the current approval.

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PREVIOUS BUILDING Our search reveals that there was a building on the site. The gable faced the road as the application does and it looks so have been a building with a rather simple form.

Whilst this building looks to have been reduced in height to the application, the current approval and requirement for parking in the form of the garage have increased this height, however the simple form and dark nature of the previous building have been used as design generators for the application scheme.

In this was the application is a modern interpretation of the previous building. Whilst the original building was most likely connected with the fishing industry, perhaps associated with net making/ repair, the current application reflects the more contemporary nature of domestic occupation next to the sea. Some of the shutters to the front elevation move to reveal windows but are also there to partly shut out the more harsh weather that the sea can provide. Glazing set back into the profile of the gable and width of the first and second floor give a glimpse of the more contemporary nature of the structure through the gaps in the cladding to the front elevation. If the original building was timber then it was probably pitch faced to provide weatherproofing as this was in use within the shipping industries of the day and our darker material used for cladding reflects this.

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Our design was intended to link the previous building with this one to help tell the story of the areas development. The contemporary nature of the design is meant to reference rather than copy the past and is not meant to disrupt it. Instead by its difference rooted in the past it should enhance the gravity and monolithic manx stone buildings that surround it. Whilst being obviously of its time it should also not look out of place for a small coastal port, the previous building shows that this is the case. We hope that this goes someway to describing why the application is designed in such a way and to reassure that the resultant design will not detract from the surrounding buildings. DAVID MCKEEVER ARCHITECT October 21st 2020