Vehicular Access Planning Statement

Planning Application – Supporting Information

Supporting information provided as per the guidance in Manual for Manx Roads (MfMR) for Category A (Householder) applications.

Site location plan and layout plans (enclosed)

• • Showing pedestrian and vehicular visibility splays
• • The access will be onto the A3 (primary route), so the visibility is provided from a 2.4m setback
• • The visibility requirement is 43m (30mph route)
• • Two parking spaces will be created and separate pedestrian access will be maintained
• • All pillars within visibility splay to be reduced to 1.05m, and section of boundary wall with Park View Methodist Church to be lowered with agreement already reached with the Isle of Man Circuit of the Methodist Church
• • Driveway surface will consist of bound, consolidated and permeable material to maintain surface drainage and avoid transmission of loose material onto the highway
• • The kerb will be dropped to enable vehicular crossing of the footway
• • The existing vehicular access will be reduced to a maximum of 2m to facilitate pedestrian and cycle access only (through construction of a permanent planter)

Description of proposed development, including schedule of uses

Formation of a new vehicular access to Lilac Cottage, from Main Road (A3) in Kirk Michael. This will allow relocation of the driveway from its current position (on the NE side of the property) to the other side of the property (SW). The current driveway is not fit for purpose, with smaller dimensions than required by the current standards in MfMR (4.5 x 2.7 m compared to the minimum requirement of 6.0 x 3.2m for a driveway parking space in front of garage adjacent to boundary).

The schedule of uses as a standard domestic driveway will not change. The driveway will be constructed to the standards prescribed in MfMR (as indicated on the enclosed plan). Reference to supporting Strategic Plan and Local Plan policies

The proposals will meet the car parking standards set out in Appendix A of the Strategic Plan (A.7.6) for a typical residential development (two spaces per unit). Both spaces will be retained within the curtilage and behind the front of the dwelling. At present, the property has only one space within its curtilage, however, this is too small for the dimensions of modern vehicles.

The Kirk Michael Local Plan advises an increase to two car parking spaces per dwelling in future development in the area (Policy 7.7), and highlights parking issues in relation to the Play School and Badminton Hall (Policy 7.4) in Park View Methodist Church Hall, which is next door to Lilac Cottage. As well as increasing the parking provision to two spaces for the dwelling, the proposals will remove the need for any o -street parking elsewhere in Kirk Michael for residents of Lilac Cottage.

The draft Written Statement for the Draft Area Plan for the North and West highlights the conflict between pedestrians and through tra ic due to the narrow pavements and on-street parking in Kirk Michael, with support for any proposals to improve this relationship (9.11.2). The limited size of the current o -street parking at Lilac Cottage makes it likely that any vehicle parked here would overhang

the pavement, and the increase to two parking spaces for this dwelling reduces pressure on the onstreet parking in the village.

Current and proposed tra ic movements There will be no change to the tra ic movements in this area from these proposals.