29 July 2009 · Planning Committee
Sea View, 15, Empress Drive, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM2 4lq
The proposal involves converting an existing hotel building, currently with 25 bedrooms, into 12 one-bedroom holiday flats on the first, second, and third floors and two private flats (one 3-bedroom for the owner and one 2-bedroom for a caretaker/manager), reducing the total bedrooms to 17.
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The officer assessed the proposal as compatible with the site's Tourism/Residential/Office zoning in the Douglas Local Plan, stating 'the use would be compatible with the current land use zoning of th…
General Policy 2
Requires development in zoned areas to respect site surroundings, provide amenity standards including parking, and avoid adverse impacts on amenity, highways, or character. The officer confirmed compliance through zoning fit, reduced parking demand, and no identified adverse effects from the internal conversion.
Environment Policy 42
Relevant to Conservation Area; no external changes proposed, so no impact on character noted.
Housing Policy 6
Applies to residential-zoned land but tourist use exempts affordable housing; condition ensures no change to permanent residential without new permission.
Transport Policy 4
Considers highway access and safety; no issues raised by Highways Division.
Transport Policy 7
Requires parking per standards; accepted due to reduced bedrooms and existing on-street reliance, despite local concerns.
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Approved plans
This permission relates to the conversion of a hotel into twelve holiday flats and two private flats as shown in drawing numbers 00841/1, 00841/2 and 00841/3 date stamped 13th May 2009.
Holiday let restriction
The holiday flats hereby approved shall only be used as tourist accommodation lets, not exceeding 3 months in duration, where tourism is defined as set out below in accordance with the provisions of the Strategic Plan and for clarification may not be occupied as a person's main place of residence. Tourism has been defined by the Tourism Society as "the temporary short term movement of people to destinations outside the places where they normally live and work and their activities during their stay at these destinations"... Note: For the avoidance of doubt, the holiday flats are located on the first, second and third floors of the buildings.
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