22 July 2014 · Planning Committee
Field 220846, Bollyn Road, Ballaugh, Isle Of Man, IM7 5ay
The proposal is for a single-storey, two-bedroom agricultural worker's dwelling with dimensions of 15.8m width, 16m depth, and 6.2m ridge height, finished in painted render and dark natural slate roofing, located in the southwest corner of a field adjacent to Seafield Farm.
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The principle of an agricultural worker's dwelling was established by prior approval in principle (13/00075/A), so this reserved matters application focused on siting, design, appearance, layout, acce…
General Policy 3
Permits essential housing for agricultural workers outside development zones. Officer noted this allows the dwelling given established agricultural need from prior approval.
Environment Policy 2
Protects Areas of High Landscape or Coastal Value (AHLV) unless no harm to character or location essential. Proposal's topography, boundaries, and farm integration ensure it does not harm landscape character.
Environment Policy 15
Requires agricultural buildings/dwellings sited near existing groups, appropriate scale/form/materials. Siting near farm buildings and sympathetic design meet this.
Housing Policy 4
Restricts countryside housing to essential agricultural cases per HP7-10. Complies via established need.
Housing Policy 7
Permits new agricultural dwellings only in exceptional circumstances with real need. Need demonstrated and accepted via prior approval.
Housing Policy 8
Requires occupancy condition restricting to agricultural workers/widows/dependants. Condition imposed.
Housing Policy 9
Requires siting within/adjoining farm buildings, set back from highway, via existing access. Proposal meets all three criteria exactly.
Housing Policy 10
Requires design per Planning Circular 3/91 policies 1-7. Front and most elevations comply traditionally; rear glazing more contemporary but accepted based on precedents.
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 14 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No2) Order 2013 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
Landscaping scheme
No development shall be commenced until a hard and soft landscaping scheme has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. Such a scheme shall include details of all walls, fences, trees, hedgerows and other planting which are to be retained; details of all new walls, fences and other boundary treatment and finished ground levels; 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 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 Planning Authority. 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 Planning Authority. All hard landscape works shall be permanently retained in accordance with the approved details. Reason: To ensure the provision of an appropriate landscape setting to the development.
Agricultural occupancy restriction
The occupation of the dwelling hereby approved shall be limited to a person engaged or last engaged solely in agriculture on the Isle of Man, or a widow or widower of such a person, or any resident dependants. Reason: The site is in an area where new dwellings are not normally approved except where an agricultural need has been established and accepted by the Planning Authority.
Visibility splays
Prior to the occupation of the dwelling visibility splays of 2 x 18 metres are required to be provided from the access to the dwelling onto the farm lane and retained thereafter. Reason: In the interests of highway safety and to ensure safe access to and from the application site.
no objection
do not oppose subject to vegetation and walls within visibility splays to be 1.05 metres or below and visibility splays of 2 x 18 metres
