Officer Planning Report

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Officer's Report

The site represents the curtilage of the Albert Hotel, a public house with tourist accommodation facing onto Port St. Mary harbour. The property is not within a Conservation Area, nor is it Registered although the Port St. Mary Plan which emerged as far as a public inquiry, recommended that a CA be designated, which would include this property. This was not among the buildings recommended for Registration in this document.

Proposed here is the replacement of some of the windows in the front elevation with plastic framed sliding sashes. The existing frontage contains a mixture of windows including plastic-framed top third top light opening casements in the ground floor of the main building and the annex to the south. The remainder of the windows in the first and second floors are timber framed sliding sashes, probably the originals.

The applicant did consult the Conservation Office and myself before submitting the application. They had originally wanted to install plastic framed casements to match those already in the building, but Gary Booth had advised that they would prefer to overhaul the existing windows and repair them and failing that, to install wooden sliding sashes to match the existing. As a compromise, and recognizing that the property is neither Registered nor in a Conservation Area, I suggested that perhaps plastic framed windows but sliding sashes may be acceptable as a halfway house. The applicant has accepted this.

I would recommend approval of this application. Whilst timber framed windows would be ideal, the property's planning status does not demand a particular style or material or window frame and there are unsympathetic windows already in the principal part of the building. We have approved other plastic casements elsewhere in the main street.

Recommendation

Recommended Decision: Permitted

Date of Recommendation: 20.05.2005

Conditions and Notes for Approval / Reasons and Notes for Refusal

C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions R : Reasons for refusal

• : Notes attached to refusals

C 1. The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.

C 2. This permission relates to the installation of plastic-framed sliding sash windows with external glazing bars to match the existing windows, as shown in the information received on 11th April, 2005.

I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular No 57/01 (Delegation of Functions to Director of Planning and Building Control).

Decision Made : Approval by delegation Date: 5/6/05 Signed: [Handwritten signature] M. I. McCauley Director of Planning and Building Control