Officer Planning Report Recommendations

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Officer's Report

The Site

The site represents the curtilage of a former church hall situated on the southern side of Gellings Avenue within Port St. Mary. The site has to its north east public toilets and garages: to the rear if the Port Str. Mary Baptist Church and associated car park and opposite and to the south west are existing houses. Those directly opposite the site were approved and built relatively recently (PA 98/1877).

Planning Status

The site lies within an area of Residential use on the Isle of Man Planning Scheme (Development Plan Order) 1982. In the Port St. Mary Plan which emerged as far as a public inquiry but was not progressed to Tynwald the site falls within an area of Mixed Use where residential, Industry, Offices or Retail would be considered an acceptable land use.

Planning History

Previously, planning permission was sought and granted for the change of use of the site from a hall to a food processing facility (ready frozen meals) under PA's 94/0190 and 94/0895. More recently planning permission has been granted for the erection of apartment building accommodating 15 units under PA 05/92112 which was permitted and then modified under PA 06/0657.

The Proposal

Now proposed is a further modification in the form of the replacement of the existing stone wall at the rear of the site with a timber fence. This will be stepped down across the site and a space left for access to the car park to the rear. The fence will be no higher at the higher end than the existing stone wall running along The Cronk Road and is the same height as the stone wall at the lower end of the site.

This will provide enhanced privacy for the occupants of the ground floor of the new building.

Party Status

There are no submissions in respect of this application.

Recommendation

Recommended Decision: Permitted

Date of Recommendation: 08.06.2006

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 erection of a fence as shown in drawings 1029-SK10 received on 4th May, 2006.

I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular Nos 44/05 (Delegation of Functions to Director of Planning and Building Control) and 47/05 (Delegation of Functions to Senior Planning Officer)

Decision Made: Permitted Date: 8/6/06

Signed: _________________________ M. I. McCauley Director of Planning and Building Control

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