14 November 2008 · Planning Committee
Field Adjacent To Sunnybank, Stoney Mountain Road, Foxdale, Isle Of Man, IM4 3hh
The proposal involves erecting an 8m high wooden telegraph pole with two antennas and a 300mm diameter dish, plus a 1200mm x 800mm x 1500mm equipment cabinet enclosed by a 1.5m high sod hedge, in an unzoned agricultural field south-west of Sunnybank Farm near Foxdale.
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The officer determined the 8m timber telegraph pole and cabinet would not be visually intrusive or prominent due to its location in front of Stoney Mountain Plantation, preventing skyline effect, and …
General Policy 3
Requires development outside zoned areas only for specific exceptions including location-dependant development for necessary services. The officer applied exception (e) for telecom infrastructure, as the site is essential for coverage and the low-impact design minimises countryside harm.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside from adverse effects unless overriding national need with no alternatives. No overriding need exists for full coverage, but the non-intrusive mast satisfies the policy as it does not adversely affect the landscape, with alternatives ruled out.
Infrastructure Policy 3
Balances telecom needs against environmental impact, presuming against intrusive masts and favouring sharing; exceptions require strategic need unavailable otherwise. The mast is not visually intrusive; sharing rejected as technically unfeasible without greater impact, and location proven essential via coverage plots and site assessments.
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 8 metre telegraph pole with 2 antennas and equipment cabinet as shown in drawing numbers HLK/08/0299/1, HLK/08/0299/2, HLK/08/0299/3, antenna and equipment cabinet details, and photograph date stamped 26th June 2008, Declaration of Conformity with ICNIRP Public Exposure Guidelines dated 13/06/008, Email from Steve Allan of Cable and Wireless plc dated 31st October 2008.
Redundancy removal
In the event of the antennas, telegraph pole and cabinet erected under this approval become redundant they must be taken down along with all ancillary infrastructure and be removed from the site within 3 months of the cessation of use and the land restored back to form part of the field.
Colour coating
Within one month of the installation of the equipment cabin and the antennas hereby approved, they shall be colour coated in full accordance with the approved plans. Any replacement or modification shall be colour coated to match within one month of it being carried out.
no objection
no objection
Malew Parish Commissioners have no objections to planning application 08/01262/B for the erection of antennae and formation of communications compound.
Malew Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionThey do not have any objections to this planning application.
