PLANNING APPLICATION NUMBER 20/00990/CON (20/00989B)

Adjacent to 22 Shore Road (THE UNDERWAY) Port St. Mary.

We have a number of objections to the proposal 20/00990/CON to build a new dwelling at the bottom of 'Quillan's Gut' Port St Mary alongside the Underway, adjoining a registered building (22 Shore Road) belonging to a member of the applicant's family.

Our property is immediately neighbouring the proposed site. Our property is highlighted yellow on the attached copy of David McKeever's block plan.

It's a shame the proposer felt it necessary to use an Architect from Harrogate who is, almost certainly, unfamiliar with the area.

We are generally in favour of small infill development and the building sustainable homes but the character of the proposed dwelling is completely at odds with those existing and which it would sit amongst.

If something is to be squeezed on 'the front line' both between two significant stone properties, and sandwiched within an entire row of traditional Manx stone properties immediately framing the harbour, then it should at least be designed in such a way as to augment the traditional buildings lining the historic harbour which are coherent and complementary to each another.

A new property should fit into the local view and not seek to disrupt it.

Such a modern conceptual design building might be liked by some but, if built as suggested, will disturb the street-scene in the most ancient part of the port forever diminishing its existing character.

This is a small but very significant area of the village which we should preserve and retain. There are many other places to build creatively something quite different. Choosing to site a modern concept house in this location will always be at odds which will cause people to permanently question it.

This isn't a case of 'Not in my back yard' this is 'Our back yard', all of us.

The immediate harbour has been preserved against unrecognisable change since the turn of the twentieth century and remains intact.

We need to protect that for future generations.

The building this proposal wishes to attach itself to is also very much part of the heritage of the area, to adjoin it will not only lose the character of a registered building it will diminish it to little more than a facade which is certainly not significantly protecting it. The proposal will insert an out-of-keeping building into the west side of the harbour blighting the whole row.

The location and block plans outlined in red in the application is misleading.

I appreciate the red area is all in Mr Paul Jaggar's ownership but to suggest the entire red area is curtilage for the building proposal development would result in completely cutting off the

garage belonging to his own (sore-thumb blue painted) building behind the site as seen in my photo and equally obvious on the block plan which I've SHADED and questioned in red.

The true area is small, hardly big enough for what has been proposed. It already apparently removes some existing much used parking amenity from the two other properties, the blue one behind and the stone one beside it also in the wider family ownership.

Parking, and even more so turning, a vehicle is already extremely difficult in that location, with cars frequently 'backing out' quite some distance to exit the harbour. No more parking exists than is already there and in very heavy use. If something must be built on this limited site then I'd expect it to be far more modest in design and size.

The current proposal lacks any amenity and is a huge over development of the site. A two storey stone cottage would be ambitious on the existing site, but something twice its size cannot be a serious proposal.

We believe the dark colour and tall size and location will over-shadow our home and also our back yard (our only outside space). If built it will almost certainly remove the single only view we have of the sea from a lone window (picture attached).

The loss of our light and outlook will be detrimental to our property. The 4 storeys are an overbearing black with no obvious visible windows or 'normal features' which is menacing and unfinished in appearance, almost farm-like. I'm not sure if the proposer is trying to emulate the style of the traditional wooden and tin grain elevators seen in the Canadian Prairies or perhaps the old net sheds found in Hastings but either of those looks is un-sulted to our harbour-side and would irrevocably change the character and beauty of the local scene alongside the Raad ny foillan (coastpath) as well as alter the character of the immediately adjoining registered building.

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Our lone window with a glimpse of the sea which we've enjoyed since we purchased Athol House in 2007 and which will be lost if a building goes ahead on this site.

Looking down onto the footprint proposed for the new build.

PROPOSED DWELLING, Adjoining 22 Shore Road, Part St Mary, IM9 5DX 182 / 0107 RING HAYE OUR PROFESSOR G. BROKSTEER 2000989 This area needed for accent to existing rear blue fainted house. SHORE ROAD DAVID MCKEEVER ARCHITECT 1/200 @ A4

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