3 October 2013 · Delegated - Senior Planning Officer (Sarah Corlett)
Victoria Cottage, St. Marks, Ballasalla, Isle Of Man, IM9 3ah
Victoria Cottage is a traditional two-storey stone-faced detached cottage in the centre of St Mark's hamlet, opposite St Mark's Church, within the St Mark's Conservation Area. The proposal involved removing the centrally placed front-facing door from the existing porch and relocating it to the northern side elevation, …
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The officer concluded that repositioning the front-facing door to the side elevation of the porch would upset the traditional vernacular form of the main dwellinghouse, which has regular window fenest…
Environment Policy 35
Requires that within Conservation Areas, only development which preserves or enhances the character or appearance of the Area is permitted, protecting special features. The officer assessed the porch alterations as failing this by harming the traditional form through door repositioning, neither preserving nor enhancing the Area's vernacular character.
Planning Policy Statement 1/01 - Policy CA/2 (Conservation Areas)
Applies special considerations to developments in or affecting Conservation Areas' context, setting, or views. The proposal was found to detrimentally affect the character via loss of traditional porch door feature.
Planning Circular 3/91 Policy 1
States removal or replacement of traditional elements like doors will generally not be acceptable; pre-1920 buildings should retain original materials and form. Assessed as unacceptable due to removal of traditional front-facing door.
Planning Circular 3/91 Policy 5 - Windows and Doors
Requires doors and windows to follow traditional rural forms in size and relationship to walls. The side door repositioning was seen as upsetting balanced traditional proportions.
Planning Circular 3/91 Policy 7 - External Features
New work should follow and respect successful past patterns and existing features essential to rural scene. Proposal harmed local pattern of front-facing porch doors.
Do not oppose
do not object to this Application
Both Highways Division and Malew Parish Commissioners responded with no objections to application 13/91007/B for alterations to an existing porch at Victoria Cottage, St Marks.
Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not oppose
Malew Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionThey do not object to this Application.
