Retrospective application for the erection of a marquee

Refusal Reasons

• ✗As the application site is within countryside any assessment of the building is dependant on the effect on the character and appearance of the area and whether there is sufficient agricultural need to justify the building in the countryside. As such the development is deemed unacceptable by reason that: by virtue of its size, position and colour the building is readily visible both within its locality and from a distance resulting in a visually obtrusive form of development that is contrary to the interests of visual amenity; and as the training of dogs is not an agricultural activity there cannot be any agricultural justification to set aside the presumption against development in the countryside. (Laxey and Lonan Area Plan policy L/OSNC/PRI1 implied)