Re-instatement of boundary bank, erection of gardener's store with viewing platform, erection of garden shed and landscaping

Why was this approved?

• visual amenity and site character enhancement
• highway safety from limited access use
• neighbouring residential amenity via landscaping controls
• compliance with General Policy 2
• reinstatement of traditional Manx bank
• minor scale of structures

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Decision & Reasoning

Policies Assessed (2)

Conditions (5)

1. 1

   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 14 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No2) Order 2013 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.

2. 2

   Limited vehicular access use

   The vehicular access from the Mountain Road hereby permitted shall be used only by vehicles maintaining the building permitted by this approval or by emergency vehicles required emergency access to the application site. Private access to the building permitted by this planning approval shall be achieved only internally to the application site via the Hillberry Green access. Reason: The access, given its limited visibility and location on a primary highway, is acceptable only because of the very limited and small-scale nature of the use predicted for it.

3. 3

   Turning area materials approval

   Prior to the laying of the hardstanding for the proposed turning area, a sample of the material proposed for that turning area shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Department. Reason: In the interest of safeguarding the appearance of the application site.

4. 4

   Tree-planting scheme

   Prior to the use of the approved tennis court coming into operation, a tree-planting scheme shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Department. The scheme shall include the numbers, species and positions of all trees and hedges to be planted on the site. All the tree-planting shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. Any trees or plants indicated on the approved scheme which, within a period of five years from the date of planting, die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced during the next planting season with other trees or plants of a species and size to be first approved in writing by the Department. Reason: In the interest of safeguarding neighbouring residential amenity and to ensure the provision of an appropriate landscape setting to the development.

5. 5

   Tree height limit

   Any trees planted on the area marked "Fruit Trees in Natural Meadow Grass" as shown on approved Drawing Number P0008 shall at no time be of a height exceeding four metres. Reason: In the interest of safeguarding neighbouring residential amenity and to ensure the provision of an appropriate landscape setting to the development.

Public Comments (2)

Consultation Responses

Douglas Borough Council has no objection to the proposal. DOI Highways has no highways interest and issued no highways interest (NHI).