12 August 2025 · Planning Committee (decision confirmed by Presenting Officer Mr Jason Singleton; formal notice by Director of Planning and Building Control J Chance)
Field 414532, Barracks Road, Port St Mary, Isle Of Man, IM9 6da
Sport Erin proposed a new clubhouse on field 414532, a designated sports pitch area off Ballafesson Road in Port Erin, replacing temporary containers with a permanent single-storey building measuring 25.4m x 23.8m (plus 6.3m x 8.5m store), featuring a mono-pitched roof (2.9-3.9m high), painted render and grey wood-effe…
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The officer concluded the proposal complies with the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016, particularly 'General Policy 2', as the site is designated 'Open Space - for particular purpose' under Area Plan f…
General Policy 2
Requires consideration of amenity, design, visual impact, highways, nuisances etc. Officer assessed proposal as compliant due to modest functional design, low scale minimising visual harm, conditioned mitigations for noise/light, and highways acceptance; 'designed to ensure compliance with General Policy 2' tipped balance for approval.
Strategic Policy 2 - Priority for new development to identified towns and villages
Site outside settlement boundary so not fully compliant with SP1-4, but accepted as part of designated 'open space' development zone per Area Plan South Map 7 and prior masterplan.
Spatial Policy 5
Assessed low single-storey form with distant views (185-245m) as not harmful to streetscene or landscape; read within sports field context against 2-storey dwellings.
Environmental Policy 22
Noise/light concerns addressed via conditions on hours, lighting, ventilation; no statutory nuisance expected with proper management.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.
Use restriction
The use of the site hereby permitted shall be restricted to: (i) Uses incidental to the use of the application site as a sports ground, including holding social functions.
Operating hours
Except as provided by Condition 4 below, the clubhouse/function room shall be closed, and no person shall be inside the building, except for security purposes, outside the hours of 09.30-22.30 Monday to Thursdays, 09.30-23.30 on Fridays, 08.30-23.30 on Saturdays and 08.30-22.30 on Sundays.
Hours variation
The Department may, on written application by Nomads (or its successors) approve a variation of the hours specified in Condition 3 above, on no more than 10 occasions in any calendar year: such variation shall not in any instance permit people to be within the building between 01.00-08.30 hours.
Lighting curfew
No lights may be illuminated beyond half an hour of the operating times as provided for in conditions 3 and 4.
No floodlights
For the avoidance of doubt no approval is hereby granted for any external floodlights to either pitch or car parks. A further planning application would be required for such lighting.
Car parking details
Prior to the occupation of the club house, details shall be submitted showing the car parking layout, demarcation of the spaces, bicycle storage and surface treatment details and drainage of the car parking areas. Further details shall also be provided of any hardstanding areas or paths around the club house. All hard landscaping works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.
No retention of containers
No approval is hereby granted for the storage or retention of any site cabins/containers/storage units as identified on plan P/00-02 (Existing site plan) within the red or blue lines on such plan within 6 months of occupation or substantial completion of the clubhouse. Such structures will require additional planning approval for retention.
Kitchen ventilation
Prior to the occupation of the development, details of mechanical ventilation of the kitchen shall be submitted to and approved by the Department. The approved means of ventilation shall be implemented and retained thereafter.
External lighting details
Prior to the occupation or substantial completion of the clubhouse, details / trade literature of all external lighting affixed to the building shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Department prior to installation. Thereafter, the lighting is to be installed in accordance with those approved details.
Landscaping scheme
No development shall be commenced until a hard and soft landscaping scheme has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Department. Such a scheme shall include details of all fences, trees, hedgerows and other planting which are to be retained; details of all new, fences and other surface treatment areas; a planting specification to include numbers, density, size, species and positions of all new trees and shrubs; the location of grassed areas details of the hard surface treatment of the open parts of the site and a programme of implementation. All hard and/or soft landscaping works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the development or in accordance with the programme agreed in writing with the Department. Any trees or plants indicated on the approved scheme which, within a period of five years from the date of planting, die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced during the next planting season with other trees or plants of a species and size to be first approved in writing by the Department. All hard landscape works shall be permanently retained in accordance with the approved details.
no objection
No Objection
