3 October 2022 · Delegated - Principal Planner Jason Singleton
Glenlough Farm, Ballahutchin Hill, Union Mills, Isle Of Man, IM4 4at
The proposal involved changing the use of the upper floor (studio/hobby room) in a newly approved detached double garage (7.8m x 6.6m, 3.5m eaves, 6.6m ridge) next to Ballahutchin House, a traditional Manx farmhouse in the countryside, to tourist living accommodation.
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The officer determined that the garage, approved only in 2021 for incidental use tied to the main dwellinghouse, lacks any historic, social, architectural interest or visual attraction to warrant conv…
Housing Policy 11
Requires rural buildings for conversion to have historic, social or architectural interest and proven redundancy. The garage fails criterion (c) due to no such interest and recent 2021 approval questions redundancy.
Environment Policy 16
Permits reuse of rural buildings for tourist use only if of historic, architectural or social interest. The modern garage lacks these qualities, failing criterion (b).
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside and ecology for its own sake, permitting only non-adverse development or overriding national need. Proposal lacks national need to outweigh protections.
Strategic Policy 2 - Priority for new development to identified towns and villages
Directs development to settlements; countryside presumption against new units undermined by new habitable tourist space.
Strategic Policy 8
Protects countryside; separate tourist use creates unsustainable new unit outside settlements.
Spatial Policy 5
Directs development to settlements and protects countryside; garage tourist conversion contravenes.
General Policy 3
Limits countryside development to listed exceptions; proposal does not qualify.
Business Policy 11
Supports tourist uses only if complying with HP11/EP16 etc.; fails due to prior policy breaches.
Business Policy 12
Supports tourist uses subordinate to other policies; fails due to HP11/EP16 etc. non-compliance.
Business Policy 14
Supports tourist uses if not undermining Strategic Plan; proposal undermines SP2/SP8/SP5/GP3.
no objection
Do not oppose - no negative impacts on highway safety, network or parking in the area
Highway Services HDC assessed the application and found no significant negative impact on highway safety, network functionality, or parking, advising consideration of an electric vehicle charging point. Marown Parish Commissioners have no objection to the application.
Highway Services HDC
No ObjectionAfter reviewing this Application, Highway Services HDC finds it to have no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and /or parking.; The Applicant is advised to consider an electric vehicle charging point.
Marown Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionThe Commissioners have NO OBJECTION to the following new applications: - 22/00244 - Additional use as Tourist Accommodation at Ballahutchin House, Ballahutchin Hill.
