**Document:** Comment 1 Glebe Cottage
**Application:** 17/00734/B — Alterations and extension to provide additional living accommodation
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2017-08-17
**Parish:** Lezayre
**Document Type:** consultation / consultation_response
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/22192-lezayre-marrinagh-extension/documents/1020462

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# Comment 1 Glebe Cottage

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Glebe Cottage,
Kirk Maughold,
ISLE of MAN. IM7 1AS
Tel & fax (01624)815748
Email: iankbleasdale@manx.net
Website: www.iankbleasdale.co.uk
28th. July 2017
Your ref:17/00734/8

Miss E. J. Callow,
Secretary to the Planning Committee,
Department of Infrastructure,
Murray House,
Mount Havelock,
DOUGLAS IM1 2SF

Dear Jo,

17/00734/B Alterations and extension to provide additional living accommodation Marrinagh Ballajora I
Man IM7 1AZ

I objected, wearing my then SPMC&E hat, to the first 2 storey, flat-roofed extension, at this house some years ago.

Now they are proposing more!

I strongly believe, that as a general Planning, Rule, 2 storey (or higher) flat roofs should not be allowed on domestic premises - particularly those exposed in the countryside. They look awful!

(Apart from the visible angle, flat roofs are notorious in giving leakage problems. My long life as a Building Surveyor has taught me that, and the owners should take notice. Don't have one. Do the job properly and put on a pitched roof to match the original.)

Yours sincerely,

IAN & ELIZABETH

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