10 July 2024 · Planning Committee (signed by J Chance, Director of Planning and Building Control)
Eastfield Care Home, Eastfield, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM1 4au
The proposal involves demolishing Eastfield Mansion House, a Victorian-era detached dwelling in the Douglas (Woodbourne Road) Conservation Area, to make way for five new three-storey terraced dwellings with roof accommodation, parking, access improvements, and landscaping.
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The decision was finely balanced, with positives including five new dwellings on brownfield land in sustainable Douglas, good design fitting streetscenes and Conservation Area, and optimal land use ou…
Strategic Policy 4
Requires protection/enhancement of Conservation Areas. Demolition causes harm but outweighed by viability evidence and replacement design benefits.
General Policy 2
Requires development to respect site/surroundings in scale/form/design without adversely affecting townscape/amenity. New terrace design amended to integrate with Victorian character.
Environment Policy 35
Permits only development preserving/enhancing Conservation Area character. Replacement preserves via traditional features despite demolition harm.
Environment Policy 39 - Retention of building in Conservation Areas
Presumption to retain positive contributors. Overridden by non-viability of retention and merits of replacement.
Time limit
The works hereby granted registered building consent shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this consent. Reason: To comply with paragraph 2(2)(a) of schedule 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1999 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented registered building consents.
Historic building recording
Development shall not commence until a programme of historic building recording of Eastfield House has been undertaken and submitted to and agreed in writing by the Department. The programme of building recording must be undertaken in accordance with Level Two as set out in Understanding Historic Buildings: A guide to good recording practice. Reason: To ensure and safeguard the recording and inspection of matters of historical importance that will be lost in the course of works.
Support the application
Douglas Borough Council initially requested a time extension to consider the application and later resolved to support it; DEFA Planning declined routine time extensions; a neighbour raised concerns about foliage and ivy but this is not a statutory consultee response.
Douglas Borough Council
No CommentThe Council would kindly request a time extension to enable the following applications to be considered when the Council’s Environmental Services Committee meets in May.
DEFA Planning and Building Control
No CommentI am not clear on why Douglas City Council would need comments from the RBO, highways and Biodiversity in order to comment on an application; it is the views of Douglas CC in relation to their functions that we wish to know.; we would prefer that extensions of time were not granted as a matter of course because the Council is in recess.
Douglas Borough Council
SupportThe above planning application was given careful consideration by the Council’s Environmental Services Committee at a meeting held on the 13th May 2024 when it was resolved to support both applications.
