15 January 2025 · Planning Committee
Conrhenny Carpark, Conrhenny Plantation, Creg-Ny-Baa Back Road, Creg Ny Baa, Onchan, Isle Of Man, IM4 7qb
The proposal seeks to amend condition 3 of the prior approval 23/01138/B, which permitted a permanent car park extension and temporary five-year siting of a single mobile food and catering unit at Conrhenny Plantation car park.
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General Policy 3
GP3 provides exceptions to development restrictions outside zoned areas for operations essential to forestry or required for interpretation of countryside/wildlife. Officer assessed car park extension and catering facility as enabling greater recreational access to the woodland, outweighing visual harm from hard surfacing, in line with plantation recreation policies.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside unless overriding national need. Minor harm acknowledged from irreversible change to green rising land behind car park, but national recreational needs tipped balance in favour.
Environmental Policy 22
Prevents unacceptable harm to environment or nearby amenity. Nearest neighbour 600m away; no amenity issues raised, and proposal not harmful.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.
Temporary 5-year limit for catering unit
In respect of the mobile food and catering unit only, at the expiration of a period of 5 years from the date of implementation, or when the food unit ceases to be operational, whichever shall occur first, the use and siting of a mobile food and catering unit shall cease and be removed.
Revised operating hours
The operation of the mobile catering unit hereby permitted shall be closed and the use cease between dusk and dawn. For the avoidance of doubt dusk shall be defined as 30 minutes before sunset and dawn 30 minutes before sunrise.
Siting and car park layout
This approval, in so far as it relates to the siting and operation of a single mobile food and catering unit, must be sited in accordance with the Proposed Site Plan dwg no 20-002 03 rev B and maintained as such. The extension to the car park shall be constructed and laid out in accordance with the same plan and completed in all respects prior to the commencement of the use of the new parking spaces.
External lighting scheme
No external lighting shall be installed except in accordance with a detailed external low level lighting scheme which complies with the recommendations outlined in the BCT and ILP Guidance Note 8 Bats and Artificial Lighting (2023), which must be submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Department prior to the installation of any external illuminations. Any external lighting shall be installed and maintained solely in accordance with the agreed scheme. This condition applies equally to the car park extension as to external lighting on the mobile food and catering van.
Lizard working method statement
No part of the works hereby approved to extend the car park shall commence until a Precautionary Working Method Statement for Common Lizard - Zootoca Vivipara, has been submitted to the Department and approved in writing. The agreed details of the Working Method Statement, which should include a timetable for implementation if appropriate, shall be implemented in accordance with the terms of the Statement and the agreed timetable.
Sod bank construction
Before the extension to the car park hereby permitted is first bought into use the proposed new sod bank shall be constructed in accordance with the Typical Sod Bank Section and the other details shown on the Proposed Site Plan (Dwg No 20-002 03 rev B). The bank shall then be maintained in accordance with those prescribed details.
Native planting scheme
Before work commences on the car park hereby permitted a comprehensive scheme of planting of native species covering the full length of the new sod bank boundary shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. The scheme shall include a specification for the proposed plant species, along with planting guides and a timetable for the implementation of the scheme. The scheme shall be carried out in accordance with the agreed timetable. Any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years from the commencement of planting of the sod bank, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species.
Construction fencing
The temporary Heras fencing must be installed and maintained throughout the construction period of the approved car park extension works, in line with the details contained in the Proposed Site Plan (Dwg No 20-002 03 rev B). No construction activities shall take place outside of the designated construction area, and any fencing which becomes damaged throughout construction must be replaced immediately.
no objections
no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking
Highway Services HDC and Garff Commissioners both have no objection to application 24/90912/B, with Highways confirming no significant negative highway 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 does not oppose (DNO) the following applications.
Garff Commissioners
No ObjectionThere were no objections to this application.
