6 July 2022 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Jason Singleton)
Field 425031, Ronague Road, Ronague, Castletown, Isle Of Man, IM9 4hg
The proposal involves building a polytunnel covered in Supertherm polythene for raising seedlings and a treated softwood kit-built shed for storing tools, bee-keeping equipment, and horticultural items on a gently sloping 3-acre field used for market gardening, orchard, apiary, and sheep paddocks.
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The officer determined there was sufficient horticultural need demonstrated by the applicant's supporting statement, annotated plans, and photographs showing existing market garden, orchard, apiary, a…
General Policy 3
Requires sufficient agricultural need for buildings in countryside. Officer assessed evidence of horticultural activities (market garden, orchard, apiary) as justifying the small-scale storage structures, unlike previous refusal lacking proof.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside for its own sake. Proposal accepted exceptionally due to need outweighing protection, with minimal intrusion from screened, removable structures fitting landscape character.
Environment Policy 15
Permits agricultural/horticultural buildings if need outweighs countryside policy, sited near building groups, appropriate scale/materials. Structures sited near farm track, low profile, timber/olive green finish sympathetic; no residential amenity issues.
Environment Policy 17
Permits nursery/market garden buildings if in keeping with character, no amenity/highway harm, screened from highways. Structures screened by sod bank/vegetation, no highway issues per DOI, scale appropriate for site.
Environment Policy 4
Protects biodiversity. No impacts as no changes to sodbanks/shrubs, no excavation or stripping affecting fauna.
Time limit
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice. Reason: To comply with Article 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.
No retail sales
No retail sales shall take place from the building hereby approved. Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and to ensure the development takes place in accordance with the approved details.
Removal if no longer needed
The building/structure hereby approved shall be removed and the ground restored to its former condition in the event that they are no longer used or required for agricultural or horticultural purposes. Reason: The building has been exceptionally approved solely to meet agricultural/horticultural need and its subsequent retention would result in an unwarranted intrusion in the countryside.
Agricultural/horticultural use only
The building/structure may only be used for horticultural or agricultural purposes. Reason: The countryside is protected from development and an exception is being made on the basis of a horticulture storage need only.
Shed colouring
The shed hereby approved must be coloured olive green or as otherwise approved by the Department and retained as such. Reason: to minimise the visual impact of the development on the countryside which is generally protected from development.
Do not oppose
support the application
Arbory and Rushen Parish Commissioners supported the application for erection of polytunnel and shed at Field 425031, Ronague Road, Ronague. DOI Highways Division do not oppose the application with no conditions requested.
Arbory and Rushen Parish Commissioners
SupportThe following applications were supported. a) 22/00150/B Field 425031, Ronague Road, Ronague. Erection of polytunnel and shed.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not oppose; After reviewing this Application, Highway Services HDC finds it to have no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and /or parking; DNO on 3.3.22
