17 January 2013 · Planning Committee
Mount Rule Farm, West Baldwin Road, Mount Rule, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM4 4hs
The proposal involved demolishing a structurally unsafe stone barn and replacing it with a new two/three-storey building (15m wide x 7.4m deep x 8.8m ridge height) providing garaging, playroom, and guest bedrooms with ensuites, plus minor amendments to the approved replacement dwelling including a first floor extension…
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The officer accepted the principle of a substantially larger replacement dwelling based on prior approvals (up to 274-291% increase), noting the existing dwelling's poor form and roadside prominence, …
General Policy 3
Restricts development outside zoned areas except specific exceptions (e.g. rural dwelling replacement, agricultural worker housing, redundant rural building conversion); proposal's new barn building fails all exceptions as it is a new residential structure tantamount to additional dwelling, not conversion or replacement of existing dwelling.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside for its own sake; development not permitted unless overriding national need with no alternative; barn replacement causes adverse countryside harm with no justifying need.
Environment Policy 2
Prioritises landscape character protection in Areas of High Landscape or Coastal Value and Scenic Significance (AHLV); proposal fails as barn harms character/quality (scale/massing/design) and dwelling amendments intrude further; not essential location.
Housing Policy 4
New housing confined to towns/villages/sustainable extensions or countryside exceptions (agricultural, conversions, replacements); barn fails all exceptions as new dwelling equivalent.
Housing Policy 11
Permits rural building conversions to dwellings if redundant, structurally sound, architecturally/historically interesting, etc., but explicitly prohibits rebuilding/replacement even if identical; barn previously approved for conversion due to interest but now unsound - replacement loses character, not permitted.
Housing Policy 14
Replacement dwellings permitted if not substantially different in siting/size unless environmental gain; prior approvals established large scale acceptable but added first floor extension (291% increase vs prior 274%) creates excessive massing/visual intrusion despite traditional design/siting benefits.
no objection to the planning application - has no traffic management, parking or road safety implications
make no comment on the merits of the application but ask for an informative note be attached to any approval
