14 August 2024 · Delegated - Acting Head of Development Management (Abigail Morgan)
Thie Ny Claghyn, Ballafayle, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM7 1ed
The application sought permission to erect a single-storey holiday unit measuring 6.5m x 8.29m with a flat roof (max height 4.089m), finished in hardie board cladding, aluminium windows/doors, including a raised garden with glazed balustrade, timber fencing, widened access, grasscrete driveway, parking for two cars, an…
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The officer concluded the proposal conflicted with countryside protection policies as the site is in open countryside, designated 'Not for Development' and an Area of High Landscape or Coastal Value a…
General Policy 2
Requires development to respect site/surroundings in siting, layout, scale, form, design; not adversely affect landscape character; integrate with topography/landscape features. Officer found proposal fails (c) due to prominent, incongruous form from elevated siting, fencing, raised garden on exposed site, not sensitively integrated.
General Policy 3
Permits countryside development only in exceptional cases like overriding national need (g). Officer assessed and found no compliance with any criteria; single-unit tourism benefits do not outweigh countryside protections despite Visitor Economy Strategy.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside from adverse development unless overriding national need with no alternative. Site in countryside; no such need established for tourism unit, causing harm.
Environment Policy 2
Protects AHLV character unless no harm or essential location. Proposal harms character/quality via prominent features on exposed site in Landscape Character Area D1.
Strategic Policy 2 - Priority for new development to identified towns and villages
Requires positive environmental contribution via design. Proposal's features conflict.
Business Policy 11
Tourism must comply with countryside policies with equal weight. Fails General Policy 3.
Business Policy 14
Rural tourism permitted if complies with Plan policies including GP3/BP11. Does not comply.
No significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking as the proposed access is acceptable for the relatively small nature of the proposals and the considered low flow rural nature of Maughold Road. Conditions should include the proposed access, vehicle hardstanding, grasscrete and parking layout shown on the approved plans to be implemented before first occupation and retained thereafter.
Highway Services HDC has no objection to application 24/00591/B, finding no significant negative highway impacts and recommending conditions for access and parking implementation. DOI Highways Drainage recommends awareness and compliance with drainage requirements to prevent surface water runoff onto the highway.
Key concern: surface water runoff onto public highway
Highway Services HDC
Conditional 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 the proposed access is acceptable for the relatively small nature of the proposals and the considered low flow rural nature of Maughold Road in which the site accesses.; The Applicant should consider an EV charging point for visitors to aid Net Zero ambitions.
Conditions requested: proposed access, vehicle hardstanding, grasscrete and parking layout shown on the approved plans to be implemented before first occupation and retained thereafter
DOI Highway Drainage
No ObjectionAllowing surface water runoff onto a public highway would contravene Section 58 of the Highway Act 1986 and guidance contained in section 11.3.11 of the Manual for Manx Roads.; Recommendation: Applicant should be aware off and comply with the clauses above.
Conditions requested: Applicant should be aware off and comply with the clauses above
