20 February 2009 · Acting Senior Planning Officer (delegated under Article 3(13) of the Town and Country (Development Procedure) Order 2005)
2, Ballanard Woods, Ballanard Road, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM2 5pq
The proposal is for a large five-bedroom detached house with three storeys, including a nanny suite, gym, sauna, and a separate garage block with four parking spaces and additional ancillary living accommodation above (two bedrooms, living/dining, kitchen).
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The principle of residential development is acceptable as the site is designated Low Density Housing in Parkland under the Douglas North Local Plan 1998 and Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2007.
General Policy 2
Requires development in accordance with area plan zoning, respecting site/surroundings in siting/layout/scale/design/landscaping, without adverse effects on character, amenities, highways, trees, or services. Officer confirmed full compliance, with proposal respecting parkland character, providing adequate parking/access, retaining trees/topography, and no amenity/highway impacts.
Housing Policy 6
Development on residential-zoned land must follow area plan brief or criteria in para 6.2, encouraging good/innovative design. Site follows Low Density Housing in Parkland brief; officer noted Georgian design as high-quality and innovative for upper housing market.
Low Density Housing Policy
Requires substantial high-quality buildings in at least 1 acre (0.4ha) grounds, sited comfortably in landscaped setting acknowledging contours/trees. Proposal fully accords: three-storey substantial dwelling on >1 acre plot, sympathetic landscaping retaining mature trees, design fitting parkland character.
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 a dwelling including garaging, ancillary accommodation and landscaping as shown in drawings 2328-P2-001, 2328-P2-002, 2328-P2-008, 2328-P2-009, 2328-P2-010, 2328-P2-011, 2328-P2-012, 2328-P2-014, 2328-P2-015, 2328-P2-017, 2328-P2-018, 2328-P2-019 and Design Statement date stamped 20th November 2008.
Materials approval
No development shall take place until samples of the facing, roofing and paving materials to be used shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority and these works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details.
Hard landscaping scheme
No development shall take place until full details of both hard landscaping works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority and those works shall be carried out as approved. Details of hard landscaping works shall include boundary treatment, including full details of the precise location and extent of the boundary treatment; footpaths; and hard surfacing materials. The hard landscaping works shall be completed in full accordance with the approved details within 3 months of the first occupation of the dwellings hereby permitted.
Planting scheme
All planting shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans within the first planting and seeding seasons following that first occupation. Any tree or shrub which within a period of 5 years from the completion of development dies, is removed or becomes seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with another of similar size and species, unless the planning authority gives written consent to any variation.
Vehicular access
The dwelling hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the vehicular means of access has been constructed in accordance with the approved plans and until the section of road up to the site has been constructed under planning permission 07/01917/B. Those means of access shall thereafter be kept available at all times for their respective purpose.
Car parking and manoeuvring
The dwelling hereby permitted shall not 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.
Tree/shrub retention
No existing tree or shrub indicated on the approved plans to be retained shall be cut down, grubbed out, topped, lopped, or uprooted without the written consent of the Planning Authority. Any such tree or shrub removed without such consent or dying, becoming seriously damaged or diseased within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development shall be replaced in the next planting season with another of similar size and species, unless the planning authority gives written consent to any variation.
Tree protection during construction
No development or other operation shall be commenced on this site until adequate steps, which shall have been previously approved in writing by the Planning Authority, have been taken to safeguard against damage or injury during construction works of all trees on the site, or those trees whose root structure may extend within the site. In particular no excavations, site works, trenches or channels shall be cut or pipes or services laid or any other works carried out in such a way as to cause damage or injury to the trees by interference with their root structure and no soil or waste shall be deposited on the land in such a position as to be likely to cause damage or injury to the trees.
Ancillary accommodation restriction
The additional living accommodation above the garages shall only be ancillary accommodation to the main dwellinghouse and at no time shall form a separate dwelling house.
Do not oppose subject to imposition of conditions on off-street parking, turning facility, and visibility splays.
No objection.
No objection subject to connection to public sewer, no surface water to foul system, and payment of communication fee.
