22 September 2014 · Senior Planning Officer (delegated authority)
Ballaveare, Old Castletown Road, Port Soderick, Isle Of Man, IM4 1bb
The proposal involves reducing the height of the existing Manx stone wall to 1m, removing part of the entrance, erecting new 2m high walls with dressed stone pillars finished in painted render and concrete coping, and installing painted metal gates with a splayed opening of 12.2m narrowing to 3.5m.
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The site is in countryside not zoned for development, subject to General Policy 3, Environment Policy 1 and 2 presuming against development, but 'Highway safety is however a material planning consider…
General Policy 3
Prohibits development outside zoned areas except for specific exceptions including highway improvements. Officer assessed that highway safety constitutes a material consideration sufficient to override the presumption against development in countryside.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside unless overriding national need with no alternative. Highway safety improvements deemed sufficient overriding consideration without adverse countryside impact.
Environment Policy 2
Protects high landscape value areas unless no harm to character or essential location. Proposal found not to harm landscape character given existing large-scale entrances.
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.
Single access implementation
Only one of the two accesses that have been approved under PA 14/00381/B and PA 14/00979/B shall be implemented. Reason: In planning terms it is not possible to implement both of these approvals.
do not oppose
