29 December 2004 · Planning Committee
The Warehouse, Braaid Road, St Marks, Ballasalla, Isle Of Man, IM9 3ar
The proposal involved constructing a steel-framed storage building measuring approximately 11.8m wide by 10m deep, attached to an existing storage shed on a small site used as a tree surgery depot.
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The officer noted that permission for an earlier storage building (PA 04/0013) had accepted the site's established tree surgery use, despite no prior permission for the business.
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 erection of a new building attached to the existing as shown in the elevational drawing, location plan and plan reference 390/1 all received on 19th October, 2004.
Use restriction
The site and building may only be used for the storage of arboricultural plant and associated equipment.
no objection in principle subject to no polluting discharges to sewers/watercourses
Highways Division objects due to inadequate sight lines at the access; Drainage Division has no objection subject to pollution prevention measures; Inland Fisheries requests no development within 8m of watercourse; Malew Commissioners unable to comment in time; Society strongly objects on rural policy grounds.
Key concern: dangerously inadequate sight lines at highway access
Inland Fisheries
Conditional No ObjectionThere must be no development within 8 metres of the watercourse to ensure habitat is retained, which may act as a wildlife corridor and also reduce disturbance to the watercourse, and decrease riverbank erosion.
Conditions requested: There must be no development within 8 metres of the watercourse to ensure habitat is retained, which may act as a wildlife corridor and also reduce disturbance to the watercourse, and decrease riverbank erosion.
Department of Transport Highways Division
ObjectionThe proposed building intensifies the use of the site where the access on to the highway has dangerously inadequate sight lines.
Society
ObjectionThis is very much open countryside where even industrial (or "storage") uses are definitely forbidden under Rural Policy.; The Society STRONGLY OBJECTS.
Department of Transport Drainage Division
Conditional No ObjectionNo Objection In principle subject to: -; it is an offence under Manx legislation to permit the discharge of polluting or harmful matter to any public sewers or watercourses.
Conditions requested: It is an offence under Manx legislation to permit the discharge of polluting or harmful matter to any public sewers or watercourses. Appropriate measures must be taken by the developer / occupier of the premises to ensure compliance with the legislation.; these comments could be incorporated in the approval notice
Malew Commissioners
No Commentthe Commissioners will be unable to make a decision until their Statutory Meeting, to be held on Wednesday 10 November 2004.
