16 September 2022 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Chris Balmer)
The Nab, Top Road, Crosby, Isle Of Man, IM4 4hl
The proposal involves building a detached two-storey structure on the curtilage of The Nab Farm, a three-storey dwelling set back 180m from the road in rural Crosby. The ground floor provides quadruple garaging (17.5m x 7.6m footprint), with a first-floor fitness studio/gym, using Manx stone cladding, natural slate roo…
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The site is in an area not designated for development under the Area Plan, triggering a presumption against development per General Policy 3, but the proposal was assessed as reasonable given its scal…
General Policy 2
Provides general development control principles (a-n) applicable to unzoned land, addressing on-site issues like design, scale, and amenity. Officer applied these to assess the garage's reasonableness in curtilage, finding it compliant due to traditional form and limited impacts.
General Policy 3
Applies presumption against development in unzoned areas; proposal does not fit exceptions (a-h) but justified by adjacency to residential curtilage, subservient scale, and policy balance with HP16.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside for its own sake, restricting adverse visual impacts. Proposal acceptable as limited visibility (glimpsed only from 200m), matching materials reduce prominence, no harm to rural landscape.
Housing Policy 16
Permits extensions/alterations to countryside dwellings if respectful of proportion, form, appearance, and visual amenity. Building's traditional design, scale (8m ridge), and siting 35m from house ensure subservience and no detriment.
Spatial Policy 5
Requires buildings to positively contribute to streetscene. Limited highway views and overshadowing by existing dwelling ensure positive or neutral contribution.
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.
Ancillary use only
The detached garage and first floor fitness studio / gym hereby approved shall only be used in association with the main dwelling house "The Nab Farm" and for purposes incidental to the use of main dwelling house "The Nab Farm" as a single dwelling, for no commercial purposes and only in accordance with the internal layout shown on plan P-10-02-A received on the 28.06.2022. Reason: The dwelling is within a single residential plot within an area not designated for development. The application does not propose to create separate units of accommodation within the site and has not been considered as such.
no objection
no Highways interest
Highway Services Division and Marown Parish Commissioners both raised no objections to application 22/00705/B for a quadruple garage with living accommodation at The Nab Farm.
Highway Services Division
No ObjectionAfter reviewing this Application, Highway Services HDC finds it to have no significant negative impact upon highway safety, network functionality and /or parking.
Highway Services Division
No ObjectionHighways Development Control notes the amendments uploaded on 28 June 2022 and continues to not oppose this proposal.
Marown Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionThe Commissioners have NO OBJECTION to the following new applications: ... 22/00705 - Quadruple Garage with Living Accom. at The Nab Farm, Top Road, Crosby
