17 November 2008 · Acting Senior Planning Officer (delegated under Article 3(13) of the Town and Country (Development Procedure) Order 2005)
Thie Eirinagh, Ballaragh, Laxey, Isle Of Man, IM4 7pn
The proposal was for a small polytunnel on a farm holding to grow fruit and vegetables. The site is part residential, part open space/agricultural under the Laxey and Lonan Area Plan, within high landscape value land.
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The officer accepted the polytunnel's agricultural use for growing fruit and vegetables as suitably related to the farm holding site.
Residential Policy 1 of Laxey and Lonan Area Plan Order 2005
Restricts residential development to designated areas; no further dwellings in Agneash but allows sympathetic alterations/extensions. Proposal not residential, so not directly tested, but site partly residential-zoned.
Policy L/OSNC/PR/1
General presumption against development in open space areas. Site partly open space/agricultural; agricultural use exception applied via other policies.
Agricultural Development
Permission for new agricultural buildings only if essential for agricultural purposes and compliant with guidance. Officer persuaded of need and assessed scale/siting as compliant.
General Policy 3
Permits development outside zoned areas for essential agricultural operations (exception (f)). Polytunnel qualified as essential farm building.
Environment Policy 15
Allows agricultural buildings where need outweighs countryside policy against development, sited near existing groups, appropriate scale/form, sympathetic to landscape. Assessed as modest scale, adjacent to buildings, acceptable impact.
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Approved plans
This approval relates to the location plan, site plan and polytunnel specification date stamped the 16th September 2008.
Agricultural use only
The building must only be used for agricultural purposes.
recommends approval
do not oppose
