14 January 2010 · Senior Planning Officer
Former Dot Depot And Adjacent Woodland, Poortown Road, St Johns, Isle Of Man, IM4 3ng
The proposal involved creating a 31-space car park with block paviour surfacing on existing hardstanding, a relocated footbridge over the River Neb to link to Tynwald Mills and the Mill House conference centre, a pedestrian walkway through retained amenity woodland, a gazebo with wildlife information boards, and improv…
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The officer assessed this as a revision to the valid 2006 permission 05/92367/B, with only minor changes including a different car park boundary reducing projection into trees, 31 spaces instead of 27…
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Approved plans
This approval relates to the creation of a car park and amenity woodland, Former DOT Depot and adjacent woodland, Poortown Road, St Johns as shown by 017/001 received 3rd November 2009 and 017/002B and 017/003 received 6th January 2010.
Access construction
The car park hereby permitted shall not be used until the vehicular and pedestrian means of access have been constructed in accordance with the approved plans. Those means of access shall thereafter be kept available at all times for their respective purposes.
Tree protection
No existing tree or shrub, with the exception of those shown as dotted circles on plan 017/002/B, shall be cut down, grubbed out, topped, lopped or uprooted without the written consent of the planning authority. Any such tree or shrub removed without such consent or dying, becoming seriously damaged or diseased within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development shall be replaced in the next planting season with another of similar size and species, unless the planning authority gives written consent to any variation.
Tree safeguarding during construction
The development shall not be commenced until adequate steps have been taken in accordance with the Trees Survey to safeguard all trees on the site and those whose root structure may extend within the site against damage or injury during construction works. In particular no excavations, site works, trenches or channels shall be cut or pipes or services or any other works carried out in such a way as to cause damage or injury to the trees by interference with their root structure and no soil or waste shall be deposited on the land in such a position as to be likely to cause damage or injury to the trees.
Do not oppose this application as this application will have no adverse traffic impact and complies with visibility standards
No Objection subject to conditions: consent under Land Drainage Act 1934 for watercourse works, full engineering drawings for bridge, no polluting discharges to sewers or watercourses
Drainage Division has no objection subject to conditions regarding watercourse consent and engineering drawings; Highways Division does not oppose due to no adverse traffic impact and compliance with visibility standards.
Drainage Division
Conditional No Objection**No Objection** subject to the following conditions; It is strongly recommended that the applicant contact the Drainage Division before work commences on site to discuss the proposed work on the riverbanks and the relocation of the bridge
Conditions requested: under section 35 of the Land Drainage Act 1934, written consent is required from the Department of Transport for any work carried out on any watercourses; submit full engineering drawings to be agreed with the Drainage Division before commencing on site
Department of Transport Highways Division
No ObjectionThe Department of Transport Highways Division **Do not oppose** this application as this application will have no adverse traffic impact and complies with visibility standards
