**Document:** DEC Decision Notice
**Application:** 19/00753/B — Alterations, erection of extension and detached garage
**Decision:** Refused
**Decision Date:** 2019-09-25
**Parish:** Michael
**Document Type:** decision / decision_notice
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/29942-ballaugh-johnsons-cottage-extension-garage/documents/1050649

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# DEC Decision Notice

Marant Farming Limited Aryhorkell Druidale Road Ballaugh IM7 5JA

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 REFUSE an application by Marant Farming Limited, Ref 19/00753/B, for the Alterations, erection of extension and detached garage at Johnsons Cottage Druidale Ballaugh Isle Of Man IM7 5JA for the following reason(s):

- 1. The application fails to provide evidence or justification to demonstrate real agricultural need for the proposed residential extensions or for the development of a new outbuilding to sufficiently outweigh the tests of General Policy 3 (a) and (f), Environment Policy 15 and Housing Policy 7 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016.
- 2. In the absence of an essential agricultural need having been established, the application is also contrary to Environment Policy 1 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016, which requires that the countryside be protected for its own sake.
- 3. There is no information provided as to how drainage and waste material at the site and from the proposed agricultural garage building would be dealt with. The application fails to demonstrate that the development will not cause any long term deterioration in water quality or pollution of the surrounding environment, nearby watercourses or the public water supply at Sulby Reservoir. The application therefore fails Environment Policy 7, Environment Policy 8, Environment Policy 22 and Infrastructure Policy 4 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016.
- 4. There is insufficient detail provided to determine the full extent of impact as a result of the development on the surrounding trees and ecology, the cumulative loss of trees or harm to ecology having an adverse impact on the wider visual appearance of the development within the landscape and harming the rural context of the site. The application fails Environment Policy 3, Environment Policy 4 and Environment Policy 5 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016.

Date of Issue: 25th September 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.

This decision refers only to that applied for under the The Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure)(No 2) Order 2013.

Whilst a copy of the Officer’s report is included alongside this notice, any wider 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

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 https://www.gov.im/categories/planning-and-building-control/planningapplications/planning-appeals/how-to-appeal/

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.

### PleasenotethatifthecountercopyoftheapplicationisnotcollectedwithinTHIRTY DAYS following the last date on which a planning appeal can be made it will be destroyedwithoutfurthernotice.

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