10 December 2021 · Head of Development Management (Stephen Butler)
Field 411412, Ballafesson Road, Port Erin, Isle Of Man, IM9 6nj
The site is a field off Ballafesson Road in Port Erin, adjacent to a golf course and near residential properties on Grammah Avenue. The proposal amends the previously approved single-storey welcome centre by extending the rear (west) elevation by 4.5m x 9.4m to create a larger function room and reducing the north (side…
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The officer assessed the amendments against the principle established by prior approval 20/00496/B, which was granted exceptionally for tourism demand despite countryside location, reinforced by restr…
General Policy 2
Requires development to respect site/surroundings in siting, scale, design, landscaping; not harm landscape/townscape character, wildlife/habitats, resident amenity, highway safety, or adjacent land use. Officer found amendments comply as they maintain prior building's scale/proportions/finishes, single-storey nature avoids overbearing impact, and no access changes affect highways.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside from development unless overriding national need outweighs harm with no alternative. Amendments deemed not harmful to surrounding countryside as minor, same appearance as approved, with landscaping conditions critical for compliance.
Strategic Policy 2 - Priority for new development to identified towns and villages
Directs development to settlements unless exceptional circumstances. Exception accepted for tourism facility as per prior approval, amendments do not introduce new uses or intensification.
Spatial Policy 5
Permits countryside development per GP3. Supported as extension of approved tourist site without broadening scope.
Business Policy 1
Encourages employment growth if policy-compliant. Amendments support tourism strategy and higher-quality holiday experience.
Environmental Policy 22
Prevents harm from noise/light pollution etc. No increased noise anticipated beyond approved; lighting scheme condition protects.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.
Landscaping scheme
Prior to the commencement of works on site, the applicant must have approved by the Department, a detailed landscaping plan, which demonstrates how the site will be ecologically and visually enhanced together with a timetable for the introduction of the planting and a five year maintenance schedule thereafter. The development shall not be carried out other than in accordance with the approved details.
Lighting scheme
No lighting may be introduced within the site unless in accordance with a detailed lighting scheme which has first been approved in writing by the Department.
Golf course protection
No development may commence on site until a plan has been approved in writing which illustrates the means by which the users of the site will be satisfactorily protected from use of the adjacent golf course and so that users of the golf course are not adversely affected by the use of the site as proposed. The development must be undertaken in accordance with these details.
Holiday use only
The development hereby approved shall not be used or occupied other than for the purpose of short-let holiday accommodation and shall not be used as permanent living accommodation. The accommodation hereby approved shall not be occupied by the same person(s) for a single period or cumulative periods exceeding 28 days in any calendar year.
Site restoration
If the site should cease being used or required for camping purposes, within one year of the site ceasing to be used as such, all structures must be removed from the site and any hard surfacing dug out and the site returned to a field. Any landscaping may remain.
Access and parking per prior approval
The development hereby approved shall not be brought into use unless the access, car parking and internal roads have first been provided in accordance with planning approval 20/00496/B, including the conditions applied to that approval.
Landscaping implementation
All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development or the occupation of the camping facilities, whichever is the sooner. Any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed, or become seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species.
Pedestrian access
Prior to the first occupation of the site, there must be in place provisions to enable users of the site to access the surrounding area safely and conveniently on foot... including the installation of an uncontrolled pedestrian crossing adjacent to the proposed site access on Ballafesson Road... and a new uncontrolled pedestrian crossing adjacent to the Ballafesson Road, Bay View Road junction.
support the application
do not object
Port Erin Commissioners support the application, and Highways Division do not oppose it with no conditions requested.
Port Erin Commissioners
SupportThe Board of Port Erin Commissioners discussed the above application at its meeting on 14th September 2021 and has resolved to support the application.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionAfter reviewing this Application, Highway Services find it to have no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network efficiency and /or parking.; Do not oppose
