23 May 2025 · Planning Committee
Croit Aust, Andreas Road, Aust, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM7 4ef
The proposal involves building a mono-pitch roofed agricultural storage shed on a flat L-shaped field (Field 134041) south of Andreas Road, for storing livestock feed, machinery, tools, and produce from the applicants' smallholding activities including chickens, geese, ducks, bees, fruit trees, and vegetables.
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The officer assessed the proposal against General Policy 3(f), which exceptionally permits buildings essential for agriculture or forestry outside zoned areas, and found the smallholding use for stori…
General Policy 3
Permits development outside zoned areas exceptionally for buildings essential for agriculture/forestry (paragraph f). Officer found the storage shed essential for smallholding activities including machinery, feed, and produce storage, justifying the countryside exception.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside unless overriding national need; officer determined agricultural need outweighed protection, with acceptable impact via screening and design.
Environment Policy 15
Requires proven agricultural need outweighing countryside policy, siting near building groups, appropriate scale/form/materials sympathetic to landscape. Need accepted for smallholding; scale reduced and sited with screening near road/dwelling group; grey cladding blends; no residential curtilage extension.
Environment Policy 2
Cited in decision; supports rural character protection via conditions on lighting and landscaping.
Spatial Policy 5
Cited in decision; officer implied compliance through overall countryside development assessment.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.
Agricultural/forestry use only
The building must be used only for agricultural/forestry purposes.
Removal if need ceases
The agricultural/forestry building and hard surfacing hereby approved shall be removed and the ground restored to its former condition within 6 months in the event that they are no longer used or required for agricultural/forestry purposes.
Landscaping scheme
No development shall take place until full details of soft landscaping works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Department and these works shall be carried out as approved. Details of the soft landscaping works include planting to the roadside boundary and should also include details of which species will be planted, number/density, what size the trees will be at date of planting, the approximate date when they are to be planted, and how they will be maintained until successfully established. All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development or the occupation of the hereby approved sheltered apartments, whichever is the sooner. Any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed, or become seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species.
No residential curtilage extension
No approval is given for the extension of the residential curtilage of Croit Aust, Andrea Road as approved under PA 17/00070/B (red line boundary of PA01 date stamped as having been received 23.01.17).
Bat-sensitive lighting
Prior to the first occupation of the development, hereby permitted, details of any permanent outdoor lighting to be installed, which shall incorporate a sensitive low level lighting plan, following best practise, as detailed in the Bat Conservation Trust and Institute of Lighting Professionals Guidance Note 08/23 - Bats and Artificial Lighting (2023), shall be submitted to and approved in writing by DEFA Planning. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details, which shall then be retained and maintained for the lifetime of the development.
Bird boxes
Prior to the first occupation of the development, hereby permitted, details for the provision of a minimum number of 3 bird boxes for nesting birds to be installed within the wooded area between the dwelling and the site of the agricultural building, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by DEFA Planning. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The bird boxes shall then be retained and maintained for the lifetime of the development.
no objection - no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking as the existing accesses are acceptable
