22 April 2025
Flat 2, Empress Apartments, 9, Empress Drive, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM2 4lq
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Multiple residents, the management company, and the freehold owner object to planning application 25/90290/C for additional use of an apartment as tourist accommodation at Empress Apartments, citing breaches of head lease covenants, security risks, insurance issues, noise, waste, parking problems, and precedent from a previous refused application.
Key concern: Breaches head lease covenants and compromises residential amenity, security, and insurance, setting precedent contrary to refused appeal AP14/0095 under Business Policy 13 and General Policy 2(g)
Centre Point Apartments Management Company Limited
ObjectionWe would like to log an interest and objection to the application; This is by definition income generating and therefore a business and not a private residence; puts the whole development and shareholders at risk of increased premiums and the possibility of not being able to source adequate Insurance cover
26 Empress Apartments
ObjectionI OBJECT in the strongest possible way to the above Application; NO CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE MATERIALLY CHANGED SINCE THEN SO THERE IS NO REASON FOR THIS APPLICATION 25/90290//C TO BE PERMITTED
37 Empress Apartments
ObjectionI strongly object to the application; I did not buy my apartment to see the complex being reduced to tourist accommodation
Flat 27 Empress Apartments
ObjectionI strongly object to the application; it is my experience that when tourists are admitted to residences on short term lets this is not in the best interests of the long term residents
Flat 32 Empress Apartments
ObjectionWe strongly object to the application; This change of use will be very detrimental to the present quiet and respectful community
Flat 14 Empress Apartments
ObjectionI strongly oppose this application; Any commercial use would not only create a disturbance to the residents but it would also implicate issues of security and insurance
Dandara Homes Ltd
ObjectionDandara Homes Limited... wishes to object to the proposed change of use; Tourist Use would be in breach the covenant having been imposed to preserve the amenity and quiet private residential use