22 February 2010 · Senior Planning Officer (delegated under Article 3(13) of the Town and Country (Development Procedure) Order 2005)
Cable And Wireless, Site 082 Tower Farm, Mountain Road, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM8 2jl
The proposal involves adding a modest 6.5m pole with two receive-only yagi antennas to an existing equipment cabinet compound at a low-powered relay station serving Ramsey. This is required because the nearby imitation tree mast (approved under 08/01213/B) causes signal interference due to its steel branches affecting …
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The officer identified a clear operational need for the antennas to resolve TV signal interference caused by the existing tree mast's steel branches, stating 'Without this antenna the TV reception ove…
General Policy 3
Requires development to respect amenity and character. Officer assessed the minor pole addition against existing masts and isolated site, finding no compromise to locality character.
Environment Policy 1
Protects environmental quality. Minor visual impact in isolated rural location with established broadcast infrastructure deemed acceptable.
Environment Policy 2
Safeguards landscape character. Proposal's modesty and context of existing masts meant no significant change.
Infrastructure Policy 3
Supports essential infrastructure like telecoms/broadcast. Directly addressed need for antennas to enable Digital Switchover and resolve reception issues.
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 installation of a 6.5m pole with two antennas as shown in drawing numbers P20523_50_100_M09_09, P20523_00_004_05, P20523_50_104_M09_09 and P20523_50_150_M09_09 date stamped 4th November 2009, Letter from Arqiva dated 30/10/2009.
Removal if redundant
In the event that the 6.5m pole with two antennas erected under this approval becomes redundant it must be taken down along with all ancillary infrastructure and be removed from the site within 3 months of the cessation of use.
no objection to the proposal
resolved not to object; acknowledged digital signal difficulties and modest height within compound
no objection
see Note 1: underground cables/overhead lines present; contact for safety and working practices
Manx Electricity Authority requests contact prior to works due to nearby underground cables/overhead lines; Maughold Parish Commissioners and Ramsey Town Commissioners both have no objection to the installation of a 6.5m pole with two antennas at Tower Farm.
Key concern: Underground Cables/Overhead Lines present in the area
Manx Electricity Authority
Conditional No ObjectionThere are Underground Cables/Overhead Lines present in the area indicated in you Planning Application; Please contact our Network Operations Department... to discuss working practices around Cables and Overhead Lines; Contact the M.E.A. for Electrical Site Safety 5 documents; All work to be carried out with reference to Health and Safety Executive Guidance Notes HS(G)47 & GS6
Conditions requested: applicant must contact the Authority; Contact our Network Operations Department, Manx Electricity Authority, (Tel. 687687) to discuss working practices around Cables and Overhead Lines which may be required to be diverted before any work can be carried out on site; Contact the M.E.A. for Electrical Site Safety 5 documents, (Tel. 687766), before any work is carried out on site; All work to be carried out with reference to Health and Safety Executive Guidance Notes HS(G)47 & GS6
Maughold Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionThe Board resolved not to object to this proposal; acknowledge the difficulties being experienced in receiving the digital signal; the problem cannot be resolved by using the adjacent 'tree' mast itself; the mast will be within the compound at a modest height
Ramsey Town Commissioners
No ObjectionRamsey Town Commissioners... have no objection to the proposal; Whilst this application is not within the Ramsey Town Boundary
