5 February 2021 · Planning Committee
Field 124163, Bernahara Road, Andreas, Isle Of Man, IM7 3hh
The proposal involves building a greenhouse (15m wide, 4m deep, 2.8m ridge height, 2.6m eaves) partly of blockwork and glazing with a glass/plastic roof, located in the northwest corner of Field 124163 next to the existing helicopter hangar at Cronk Breck.
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The Department was satisfied that the applicants demonstrated sufficient horticultural need for the greenhouse to grow shrubs and plants for use on their Cronk Breck estate and other land holdings, ou…
General Policy 3
Requires no development outside zoned areas except essential agriculture/forestry operations. Officer found horticultural need sufficient to justify exception for this greenhouse associated with applicants' estate.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside from adverse development unless overriding national need with no alternative. Greenhouse need outweighed protection due to small scale, landscaping, and no visual harm to open countryside.
Environment Policy 15
Permits agricultural/horticultural buildings if need outweighs countryside policy, sited near building groups, appropriate scale/form, and landscaped. Proposal meets this: close to hangar, sympathetic scale under 3m high, sod banks/trees mitigate impact.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.
No residential curtilage extension
For the avoidance of doubt no approval is hereby given for the extension of the residential curtilage (as approved under PA 16/00963/B).
Removal if use ceases
If the greenhouse is no longer required or used for growing of horticultural/agricultural products, then it must be removed from site and returned to grassed field all within 6 months of the cessation of the use.
Sod bank landscaping scheme
Within one month of the date of this decision notice a detailed scaled scheme (including section drawings) illustrating the size/height and finish (landscaping/planting) of the new sod banks which will continue the existing sod bank along the western boundary of Field 124163 to the northern boundary of Field 124163 as shown on Drawing "Sheet 2 of 2" shall be submitted and approved in writing to the Department. This approved scheme shall be fully implemented and completed within 3 months of the approval of the condition and retained thereafter. Any landscaping (excluding sod bank construction) included in the scheme shall be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons. Any trees or plants which die or become seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species.
Horticultural use only
The building must be used only for agricultural/horticultural purposes.
no highway implications
no objection
Highways Division reported no highways interest on two occasions; Andreas Parish Commissioners raised no objections; a local resident objected strongly citing misleading description, commercial scale, lack of policy justification, and visual/industrial impact.
Key concern: misleading description of 'domestic greenhouse' with 60m² commercial-scale footprint lacking policy justification
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionNo Highways Interest; NHI
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionNo Highways Interest; NHI
Andreas Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionAndreas Parish Commissioners have now considered the above proposed development, and have no objections thereto.
Jo Callow, Ballachurry Farm Cottage
ObjectionThe actual footprint proposed of the 'greenhouse' is actually in excess of the footprint of the entirety of my home being 60m².; I do not see where the erection of a 'greenhouse' in a field fits with policy in that there has been no real justification for the structure provided.; The site as may be viewed from the proximity, and with all the buildings now in situ, is more of an industrial nature.
Jo Callow, Ballachurry Farm Cottage
ObjectionWhilst I have seen the amended plans and note that the structure already erected, I still see no justification for this greenhouse in an agricultural field.; There remains no clarity as to the extent of the applicants’ residential curtilage, where it ends, to form any justification for the constant activity in this field.
