**Document:** DEC Decision Notice **Application:** 19/01140/B — Sports playing field development comprising of sports pitches, four cricket nets, erection of 3m high perimeter fencing and associated drainage along with temporary road for construction access and compound **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2019-12-20 **Parish:** Malew **Document Type:** decision / decision_notice **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/28870-malew-castle-rushen-sports-playing/documents/1040390 --- # DEC Decision Notice Curtins Consulting Engineers Varley House 29-31 Dukes Street Douglas IM1 2AZ 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 Department Of Education, Sport & Culture, Ref 19/01140/B, for the Sports playing field development comprising of sports pitches, four cricket nets, erection of 3m high perimeter fencing and associated drainage along with temporary road for construction access and compound at Field 433109, Adjacent To Castle Rushen High School, And Fields 434016, 434013 & 434015 Arbory Road Castletown Isle Of Man and 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. Within 12 months of the sports playing fields coming into use, the temporary access hereby approved shall be closed up and the stone wall made good to match the existing and all associated temporary road and hardstanding removed and the ground restored and reverted back to an agricultural field. Reason: The access was requested for and assessed on a temporary basis only and in the interest of visual amenity. - 3. No site clearance, preparatory work or development shall take place until a scheme for the protection of the hedges is prepared and agreed in writing by the Department. The development must be carried out in accordance with the approved details. No alterations or variations to the approved hedge protection scheme or working methods shall be made without prior written consent of the Department. Reason: to ensure that all hedges to be retained are protected during construction. - 4. No site clearance, preparatory work or development shall take place until a tree planting specification is submitted to and agreed in writing by the Department. Where applicable the tree planting specification shall adhere to the recommendations of BS8545:2014 (Trees: from nursery to independence in the landscape - recommendations) and in all cases shall include details of all trees to be planted, including a) their quantity, location (or density), species and size at date of planting; b) the approximate date when they are to be planted; and c) how they will be maintained until successfully established. The tree planting shall take place as agreed and any trees which, within a period of 5 years from their first planting, are removed, or, in the opinion of the Department, become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species, unless the Department gives written consent to any variation. Reason: to ensure an appropriate standard of visual amenity in the local area and that the development is appropriately landscaped to sit comfortably and acceptably in its location. - 5. No site clearance, preparatory work or development shall take place until a scheme for the re-instatement of the sod hedge is submitted to and agreed in writing by the Department. The works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details and retained thereafter. Reason: to ensure an appropriate standard of visual amenity and boundary treatment in the local area. This approval relates to following document and drawing numbers all date stamped and received 23/10/2019: Planning Statement Road Safety Audit - CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(00)001-PL - CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(00)002-PL - CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(02)003-PL - CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(91)004-PL CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(02)004-PL CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(02)005-PL - CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(91)005-PL - CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(91)007-PL - CUR-00-XX-DR-S-(91)008-PL 1500/001 Revision PL1 - 22/001/ME/01 Revision I3 - 22/001/ME/02 Revision l1 LS-10 DRAFT LS-02 Revision 0 Date of Issue: 20th December 2019 Director of Planning and Building Control Guidance Note This decision was made by a Principal Planner in accordance with the authority delegated to them. All correspondence which led to the assessment and decision is available to view on the Government’s website (via Online Services) or at the Department’s offices Murray House, Mount Havelock, Douglas. www.gov.im/Viewapplications This decision refers only to that applied for 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 current Fees Order; 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 www.gov.im/planningappeal 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. --- *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/28870-malew-castle-rushen-sports-playing/documents/1040390*