**Document:** Decision Notice **Application:** 16/00356/B — Conversion of existing office to provide seven residential apartments with balcony garden and associated parking **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2017-01-09 **Parish:** Malew **Document Type:** decision / decision_notice **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/23134-malew-canada-life-house-conversion-balcony/documents/1029399 --- # Decision Notice JTM Architecture 9 Ard Reayrt Ramsey Road Laxey Isle Of Man IM4 7PZ TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 The Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure)(No 2) Order 2013 In pursuance of powers granted under the above Act and Order the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture determined to APPROVE an application by M.O.P. Holdings Ltd, Ref 16/00356/B, for the Conversion of existing office to provide seven residential apartments with balcony garden and associated parking at Canada-Life House Alexandra Road Castletown Isle Of Man IM9 1TG subject to compliance with the following condition(s) and notes (if any) : - 1. 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 14 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No2) Order 2013 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals. - 2. Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved the access shown on Drawing JTM054-P-11 (date-stamped as having been received 29th December 2016) shall be constructed and the visibility splays shall remain unobstructed at a height of 1.05m thereafter. Reason: In the interest of highway safety. - 3. Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, a dropped kerb shall be installed on the A5 highway via a method to be agreed in advance with the Department, and retained thereafter. Reason: In the interest of highway safety. - 4. Prior to the occupation of any dwelling the garage, car parking and manoeuvring areas shall be laid out as shown on Drawings JTM054-P-03 (date stamped as having been received 12th April 2016) and JTM054-P-11 (date-stamped as having been received 29th December 2016), and permanently kept free from obstruction thereafter. Reason: To ensure that the strategic plan car parking standards are met in the interest of highway safety. - 5. Prior to the occupation of any dwelling, an acoustic ceiling shall be installed within the basement level and retained thereafter. - Reason: In the interest of protecting residential amenity for the dwellings above. - 6. The basement level shall be used only for the purposes of storage, and / or a communal sitting room, and / or a gym for the residents and their guests of the dwellings hereby approved. Reason: In the interest of protecting residential amenity for the dwellings above. - 7. The basement level shall at no time be let on a commercial basis. Reason: In the interest of protecting residential amenity for the dwellings above. The development hereby approved relates to Drawings JTM054-P-01, JTM054-P-02, JTM054-P-03, JTM054-P-04, JTM054-P-05, JTM054-P-06, JTM054-P-10-07, JTM054-P-1008, JTM054-P-10-09 and JTM054-P-10-10, plus the site plan, all date-stamped as having been received 10th March 2016, and also to Drawing JTM-054-P-11, date-stamped as having been received 29th December 2016. Date of Issue: 9th January 2017 ## Director of Planning and Building Control Guidance Note This decision was made by the Planning Committee in accordance with the authority delegated to it in the name of the Minister and/or in the name and on behalf of the Department. This permission refers only to that required under the The Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure)(No 2) Order 2013. Any appeal against this decision must be in accordance with the criteria set down in that instrument. Specifically, a valid appeal must be in writing, signed by the appellant, and submitted to the Department within 21 days of the date of this Notice. To further validate the appeal it must contain: -  Payment of a planning appeal fee as prescribed in the Town and Country Planning (Application and Appeal Fees) (No2) Order 2016 (currently £170); -  The reasons for making the appeal; and -  An election to have the appeal conducted by means of an inquiry (a hearing) or by means of written representation. An appeal form and guidance notes are available from either Planning & Building Control, Tel 685950, or to download from the Department’s website https://www.gov.im/categories/planning-and-building-control/planningapplications/planning-appeals/how-to-appeal/ The proposed development must not be commenced until either; -  The time for requesting an appeal has expired; or -  Any appeal has been determined; Whichever is the later. If no appeal is lodged within 21 days of the date of issue overleaf, and this decision becomes final, the Department’s public reference copy (counter copy) of the planning application may be collected by the applicant or their agent from Murray House. A copy of the Officer’s report and any correspondence which led to the assessment and decision is now available to view on the Government’s website (via Online Services) or at the Department’s offices Murray House, Mount Havelock, Douglas. https://www.gov.im/planningapplication/services/planning/search.iom Please note that if the counter copy of the application is not collected within THIRTY DAYS following the last date on which a planning appeal can be made it will be destroyed without further notice. --- *Data sourced from the Isle of Man public planning register under the [Isle of Man Open Government Licence](https://www.gov.im/about-this-site/open-government-licence/).* *Canonical page: https://planningportal.im/a/23134-malew-canada-life-house-conversion-balcony/documents/1029399*