15 August 2024 · Acting Head of Development Management (Abigail Morgan)
Unit 24, Gladstone Park Industrial Estate, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM8 2la
The site is Unit 24 in Gladstone Park Industrial Estate, Ramsey, an area zoned for light industrial use under the Ramsey Local Plan 1998. The proposal requested approval for adding a small sales element to the existing light industrial operations, involving assemblage, storage, and display of furniture like wardrobes, …
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The officer assessed the proposal against Business Policies 5 and 10, and Strategic Policy 9, which restrict retail in industrial areas unless items cannot reasonably be sold from town centres due to …
Business Policy 5
Requires permission for retailing in industrial areas only if items cannot be sold from town centres due to size/nature, or are produced on-site and inseparable, and sales won't harm town centre vitality. Officer found furniture sellable in town centres (existing shops cited) and no sufficient on-site assembly space/production to justify inseparability; no evidence sales wouldn't detract from Ramsey centre.
Business Policy 10
Permits retail only in established town/village centres except per BP5 or neighbourhood shops. Proposal failed BP5 exceptions, so retail element in industrial estate conflicted, risking town centre viability amid vacant units.
All new retail development (excepting neighbourhood shops and those instances identified in Business Policy 5) sited within the town and village centr
Directs all new retail to town/village centres on zoned land, except BP5 cases. No demonstration that proposal wouldn't reduce footfall/vitality in Ramsey, contradicting strategy to boost high streets.
General Policy 2
Considers development control including highway safety, amenity, flooding. Acceptable for parking/highways/flooding, but retail principle failed policy tests on land use and town centre protection.
Transport Policy 7
Parking provisions. Two spaces plus estate availability sufficient despite retail attracting more demand than industrial; no indiscriminate parking or safety issues.
no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking as there is adequate turning and parking provision on the site and within the estate
Highway Services HDC reviewed application 24/00146/C and found no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking due to adequate turning and parking provision on site and within the estate.
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 as there is adequate turning and parking provision on the site and within the estate for the operation and staff/visitors of the proposals.
