20 June 2008 · Delegated - Senior Planning Officer (Mrs F Mullen)
Block 1, Oakhill Court, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM2 2nj
The proposal involves extending an existing three-storey residential apartment building on Stevenson Way in a predominantly residential area with a matching three-storey extension measuring 12.9m x 10.9m and 10m ridge height to provide six new 1-bedroom apartments, plus two additional car parking spaces to the existing…
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The site is zoned residential in the Douglas Local Plan, so the principle of additional apartments complies with land use zoning.
General Policy 2
General Policy 2 is relevant per officer report. Applied to overall assessment of development in residential zone, ensuring compliance with area plan briefs encouraging good design.
Housing Policy 6
Requires residential-zoned land developed per area plan brief or criteria in para 6.2, encouraging good/innovative design without prescription. Site zoning accepts additional apartments.
Transport Policy 4
Requires highways serving development to accommodate generated vehicle/pedestrian journeys safely per environmental objectives. Assessed via parking and segregation measures.
Transport Policy 6 - Equal weight for vehicles and pedestrians
Gives equal weight to pedestrians in new development/transport design. Addressed by condition for segregation scheme.
Transport Policy 7
Requires parking per Department's current standards (Appendix 7). Proposal meets 1 space per 1-bed unit, totaling adequately for existing+proposed.
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Approved plans
This permission relates to the erection of an extension to existing building to create six additional apartments and creation of additional car parking as shown in drawing numbers WL/07/1064/1, WL/07/1064/2, WL/07/1064/3 and WL/07/1064/4 date stamped 19th December 2007.
Materials approval
No facing and roofing materials shall be used other than materials similar to those used on the existing building.
Car parking provision
No residential unit in the extension hereby permitted shall be occupied until the car parking and manoeuvring areas have been provided in accordance with the approved plans, and those areas shall thereafter be kept available at all times for their respective purposes.
Pedestrian/vehicular segregation
No residential unit in the extension shall be occupied until a scheme to segregate the pedestrian and vehicular movements has been provided in accordance with details which shall first have been submitted to and provided in writing by the planning authority.
No objection
No objection subject to drainage details approval and no surface water to foul sewers
Note received (non-planning building control matters)
Note received requiring contact for water supply connection
