26 November 2024 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Chris Balmer)
1, Oak Road, Ballawattleworth Estate, Peel, Isle Of Man, IM5 1wd
The proposal involves erecting a prefabricated timber cabin measuring 6.1m long by 4.1m wide, with a ridge height of 2.72m and eaves height of 2.21m, in the rear garden of 8 Oak Road, a house in a residential estate in Peel.
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The officer accepted the principle of the cabin as it aligns with Class 15 permitted development for subservient garden structures, though a full application was required due to its larger footprint a…
General Policy 2
Requires general standards for acceptable development including design, amenity (g), highway safety (h,i), and character (b,c). Officer assessed the cabin's visual impact, neighbour amenity, and highway safety against these, finding compliance due to subservient scale, rear siting, buffering, and ancillary condition, with no unacceptable harm.
Environment Policy 42
Concerns design, character, locality and no unacceptable back land development. Proposal accepted as fitting within residential curtilage without dominating the area or appearing as backland development.
Strategic Policy 1
Make best use of existing sites. Supported ancillary development within existing residential curtilage.
Spatial Policy 5
Make positive contribution. Cabin provides additional space without adverse impacts.
Spatial Policy 3
Development directed to existing centres including Peel. Site in established residential area of Peel.
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.
Ancillary use only
The timber cabin hereby approved shall not be occupied at any time other than for purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the residential use of the main dwelling No. 8 Oak Road including use as a home office, and shall not be occupied as an independent or separate dwelling unit at any time. Reason: To ensure proper control of the development as applied for within the application and in the interest of highway safety and to avoid any future undesirable fragmentation of the curtilage.
Do not oppose subject to condition; no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking providing the building remains ancillary to the existing dwelling
Highway Services HDC reviewed multiple applications including 24/91132/B and found no significant negative impact on highway safety, network functionality or parking, provided the building remains ancillary to the existing dwelling via condition, resulting in no opposition (DNO).
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 providing the building remains ancillary to the existing dwelling via condition, due to the existing parking layout suitable for one site.; Highway Services HDC does not oppose (DNO) the following applications.
Conditions requested: building remains ancillary to the existing dwelling via condition
