14 October 2024 · Planning Committee
The Nab, Top Road, Crosby, Isle Of Man, IM4 4hl
The proposal involves installing a single vertical axis wind turbine, 11m tall overall with a 6m high, 4m diameter 5-blade rotor mounted on a 6.7m pole, to power the farmhouse and outbuildings at Nab Farm.
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The environmental benefits of the proposed scheme outweigh the limited identified harm to the countryside, so the wind turbine complies with Energy Policy 4 and Environment Policy 2.
General Policy 2
Requires development to respect surroundings in siting, scale, design; not adversely affect landscape character, amenity, wildlife habitats, road safety. Assessed compliant as turbine's distance, screening, and vertical design limit visual/amenity/noise impacts; no highway issues.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside outside settlements unless overriding national need outweighs protection. Renewable energy benefits provided the overriding justification despite undesignated site.
Environment Policy 2
Protects High Landscape or Coastal Value areas unless no harm to character or location essential. Limited harm found acceptable due to distance (550m from road), screening by trees/farm buildings, height no higher than adjacent barn, and vertical design.
Environment Policy 4
Judges alternative energy like wind against environmental policies. Environmental benefits of domestic renewable energy outweighed limited countryside harm.
Environment Policy 24 - Pollution sensitive development
Requires environmental information for significant effects. Satisfied via Ecology Vannin report assessing bats/birds/lizards, though full EIA not required for small domestic turbine.
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 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
Common lizard avoidance measures
The development, hereby permitted, shall be undertaken in line with the Reasonable Avoidance Measures for Common Lizard contained in Appendix II of Ecology Vannin's Advice Note: 'Wind Turbine Site Assessment and Advice, dated June 2024.' Reason: To protect and enhance the habitat of the Common Lizard on and around the site.
Decommissioning and restoration
Within 12 months of the point where the wind turbine permanently ceases to produce electricity, the wind turbine and its ancillary equipment and infrastructure shall be removed, and the land restored, in accordance with a decommissioning and site restoration scheme which shall first submitted to, and approved in writing by, the Department. The scheme shall be implemented in accordance with the approved details. Reason: To protect the visual amenities of the area.
No significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking
No objection
Ecology Vannin's Advice Note is all in order and a suitable level of assessment has been undertaken, subject to updated site plan and condition for lizard measures
Highway Services HDC found no significant negative highway impact and does not oppose; Ecosystem Policy Team raised concerns about bat and bird impacts requesting ecological surveys; Marown Parish Commissioners have no objection.
Key concern: potential impact on bats and birds requiring ecological surveys
Highway Services HDC
No ObjectionAfter reviewing this Application, Highway Services HDC finds it to have no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and/or parking.
Ecosystem Policy Team (DEFA)
Conditional No ObjectionThe Ecosystem Policy Team are concerned about the potential impact of the proposed domestic wind turbine on wildlife, particularly bats and birds.; A precautionary approach is also recommended for free standing micro-turbines and they should not be located within 50m of a known bat roost, on buildings where bats are frequently observed, or on known bat flyways.; In order to comply with Environment Policy 4 and 5 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan and the Wildlife Act 1990, The Ecosystem Policy Team therefore request that prior to determination of this application preliminary assessments for bats and birds are undertaken
Conditions requested: prior to determination of this application preliminary assessments for bats and birds are undertaken on the site by a suitably qualified ecological consultancy and reports detailing the findings submitted to Planning; The employed ecological consultancy will need to be define what further assessment is required based on a desk study and walk over assessment of the site. Further assessment is likely to include activity surveys and roost surveys
Marown Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionThe Commissioners have NO OBJECTION to the following: 23/01367 – Domestic Wind Turbine at The Nab, Top Road, Crosby.
