17 February 2021 · Planning Committee
Ballanoa, Andreas Road, Dhoor, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM7 4ee
The proposal involves installing 36 ground-level solar panels in three rows (total 4.8m wide by 14.8m deep, up to 2.2m high at 30 degrees) in an adjacent field (Field 134038) and 4 air source heat pumps at the rear of the two-storey detached dwelling Ballanoa.
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The Department supports renewable energy but balanced it against countryside protection under Environment Policy 1, which prohibits development adversely affecting countryside unless overriding need e…
Strategic Policy 1
Requires optimising resources, efficient site use, and utilising infrastructure. Assessed as compliant due to renewable energy use on existing site without wasteful land take.
General Policy 3
Permits development outside zoned areas for essential operations. Solar panels exceptionally allowed in countryside without reducing landscape impact.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside from adverse development unless overriding need. Screening ensures no harm to countryside character; renewable energy benefit outweighs minor intrusion.
Environment Policy 14
Prohibits loss of Class 1-2 agricultural land unless overriding need. No permanent loss as sheep can graze under raised panels without fencing.
Environment Policy 22
Prohibits unacceptable harm from pollution, noise etc. Heat pumps distant from neighbours; no lighting to protect ecology.
Energy Policy 4
Judges renewable energy against environmental policies; no EIA needed for solar as unlisted and small-scale.
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 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
No external lighting
No external lighting shall be installed on or around the solar panels. Reason: To provide adequate safeguards for the ecological species existing on the site.
Removal if disused
The solar panels hereby approved shall be removed and the ground restored to its former condition in the event that they are no longer used or required for the production of electricity. Reason: The building has been exceptionally approved solely to meet solar energy and its subsequent retention would result in an unwarranted intrusion in the countryside.
No curtilage increase
For the avoidance of doubt no permission is hereby given the increase of the existing residential curtilage of the site. Reason: In the visual amenities of the countryside and as the application does not seek to increase the residential curtilage of the site and the application has not consider this.
No fencing without approval
No fence or other enclosure of the solar panels may be erected unless otherwise agreed with the Department. Reason: To ensure the continued used of the agricultural land.
recommended the application be approved
no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network efficiency and/or parking
Lezayre Parish Commissioners approved the application unanimously despite concerns about placing solar panels on agricultural land, and Highways Division does not oppose with no conditions.
Key concern: appropriateness of placing solar panels on agricultural land
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not oppose; After reviewing this Application, Highway Services find it to have no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network efficiency and /or parking
Lezayre Parish Commissioners
SupportThe field where the solar panels are to be located is agricultural.; Approved Unanimous
