APL 00 Planning Statement

Coonceil Valley Corpagh Doolish

Dana Eynon, Director Environment & Regeneration Department

Planning and Building Control Directorate Department of Environment Food and Agriculture First Floor Murray House Mount Havelock Douglas IM1 2SF

22nd August 2022

Dear Sirs

SUBJECT: PLANNING APPLICATION – TEMPORARY BUILDINGS, SPRING VALLEY PLAYING FIELDS

Due to the unsafe nature of the existing wooden cabin changing facilities at Spring Valley playing fields in Pulrose, the building was condemned by the Council and is unsafe to be used by the public. The Council are currently working on designs for the new changing facilities and will be submitting a planning application for a replacement building in due course. This has left a need for temporary changing facilities in the form of a temporary cabin to be installed whilst a replacement to the wooded cabin is constructed. The temporary cabin will be used as changing facilities and storage for the clubs currently playing at the sports fields. Due to the need for changing facilities to be in place for the start of the 2022/23 football season, the cabin is to be installed by the end of August and planning will be sort retrospectively for the temporary structures to stay for a maximum of three years.

The Council plan to repurpose one of its existing welfare cabins and turn it into a temporary changing facility for the duration of the building works. The cabin will be located at least 3 metres from the nearest football pitch and at 11 metres in from the existing boundary fence. All the windows to the cabin will be fitted with a film on both sides of the windows to prevent vision into the changing rooms this will be coloured white or opaque. To the outside of the window a metal mesh will be installed to protect the exterior windows. Due to the temporary nature of the building only a

Coonceil Valley Corpagh Doolish

Dana Eynon, Director Environment & Regeneration Department

temporary electrical supply will be installed and the building will not have any drainage, water, telecommunications, or gas service connections.

Alongside the proposed temporary cabin there are two single portable chemical toilets that are maintained and looked after under contract by the provider of the toilets. Also alongside the cabin is a galvanised steel flat pack storage contained, powder coated green, to provide storage for equipment for the teams playing at the sports fields.

Once the replacement to the wooden changing facilities is built, all the temporary structures relating to this application will be removed from site and the area will be reinstated back to grass as it currently is. The Council envisage that the new changing facilities will be tendered in early 2023 with construction complete within the year, this is subject to planning and building regulations approval and obtaining a tender within the budget for the project.

In relation to the history of the site, there has been previous successful application for the siting of a temporary mobile unit to provide changing facilities on the site (10/01143/B).

If you require any additional information or clarification on any part of this planning application then please contact myself on 01624 696392 or email [email protected].

Yours faithfully

Stephen Halsall Projects Engineering Officer