23 May 2024 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Chris Balmer)
Dreswick, Linden Avenue, Port St. Mary, Isle Of Man, IM9 5er
The application is for retrospective approval of a 1000 litre oil tank (1.76m long x 0.54m wide x 1.44m high) placed on a concrete base 4.2m from the Queens Road highway boundary, on the northern side of the detached dwelling Dreswick, nearest the boundary with neighbouring property Handley Cross.
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The officer assessed the principle as acceptable since oil tanks are commonplace in residential areas and permitted development allows similar installations under certain limits, though this required …
General Policy 2
Requires consideration of visual amenity (b), character of locality (c), and amenity of adjoining properties (g). The officer tested the tank's setback, low profile, dark colour, and screening against these, finding reduced visual prominence and no overbearing amenity harm sufficient to meet the policy despite neighbour objections.
Strategic Policy 3 - To respect the character of our towns and villages
Promotes good development. Applied to support the principle of residential ancillary features like oil tanks in residential areas.
Spatial Policy 5
Supports building in defined settlements in line with GP3. Site in 'Predominately residential' area on Area Plan for the South 2013, so principle accepted.
Environment Policy 42
Designed to take account of character and identity. Assessed against streetscene with open feeling, setbacks, and planting; tank not harmful to adjacent proposed Conservation Area.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice. Reason: To comply with Article 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
Trellis colouring
Within 3 months of this decision notice the timber trellis hereby approved (as shown on drawing OT3B) shall be finished in a dark green in colour and retained as such thereafter. Reason: in the interest of visual amenity and to best match the dark green colour of the existing oil tank.
Screen planting
The screen planting hereby approved shall be carried out in accordance with the details as shown on drawing OT1B and OT3B and within the next available planting season. Any screen plants indicated on the plans which, within a period of five years from the date of planting, die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced during the next planting season with other plants of a similar species and size and retained thereafter. Reason: In the interest of softening views of the oil tank from the neighbours perspective.
No highways interest
Highway Services Division has no interest in the application and no highway impacts; Port St Mary Commissioners have no objections to the amended plans; a neighbour objects due to proximity and visual impact.
Highway Services HDC
No ObjectionAfter reviewing this Application, Highway Services HDC finds it to have no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking.; Highway Services HDC has no interest (NHI) in: ... 24/00013/B; Highways HDC have reviewed the updated information for application 24/00013/B dated 8 May 2024 online and have no further comments to make.
Highway Services HDC
No CommentHighways HDC have reviewed the updated information for application 24/00013/B dated 8 May 2024 online and have no further comments to make.
Port St Mary Commissioners
No ObjectionPort St Mary Commissioners had no objections to the following applications: 24/00013/B - Dreswick, Linden Avenue for erection of oil tank (retrospective) Amended Plans received showing proposed screening.
