8 August 2025 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Chris Balmer)
Field 110929, West Kimmeragh Road, Bride, Isle Of Man, IM7 4ba
The proposal is for a new steel portal frame cattle shed measuring 36.6m long x 14.6m wide x 5.18m high at the eaves, with low level cast concrete walls, timber cladding above, grey fibre cement corrugated gables and roofing, and metal roller shutter doors at each end.
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The officer determined that the development is essential for agriculture, justified under General Policy 3(f) as a building required for stock housing due to farm expansion needs after splitting, enab…
Strategic Policy 2 - Priority for new development to identified towns and villages
Permits development in countryside only in exceptional circumstances per General Policy 3. Officer assessed the proposal meets this via agricultural exception, with no overriding harm.
Spatial Policy 5
Permits countryside development per General Policy 3. Proposal complies as essential agriculture.
General Policy 2
Requires respect for site/surroundings in siting/scale/design, no adverse landscape/amenity/highway effects. Building's location, scale, and materials meet criteria (b),(c),(f),(g),(h),(i),(l); no conflicts found.
General Policy 3
Exception (f) for operations essential for agriculture. Clear need demonstrated for stock shed.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside unless overriding need. Agricultural need outweighs protections; no adverse effect.
Environment Policy 13
Prohibits unacceptable flood risk. Small low-risk area not significant in open countryside.
Environment Policy 15
For agricultural buildings, requires need outweighing countryside policy, sympathetic siting near groups, appropriate scale/materials. Site practical (no farmyard space), not exposed/isolated/close to highway; sympathetic to landscape.
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.
Materials approval
All external facing and roofing materials to be used on the building hereby approved shall be as specified on Drawing No 25 1907 NB 03. Reason: In the interests of the character and appearance of the surrounding area.
Agricultural use only
The building hereby approved shall be used only for agricultural purposes. Reason: The countryside is protected from development and an exception is being made on the basis of agricultural need. As such the building must be used for the purposes for which it is approved.
Removal if not used for agriculture
The agricultural building hereby approved shall be removed and the ground restored to its former condition in the event that it is no longer used or required for agricultural purposes. Reason: The building has been exceptionally approved solely to meet agricultural need and its subsequent retention would result in an unwarranted intrusion in the countryside.
no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking as the existing access and proposed internal layout is acceptable
