**Document:** DEC Decision Notice **Application:** 24/00201/B — Erection of ground floor extensions and first floor extension to dwelling and widening of driveway to provide additional parking. First floor extension to provide self-contained annexe with additional tourist use **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2024-07-24 **Parish:** Braddan **Document Type:** decision / decision_notice **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/32068-union-mills-cronk-drine-extension-dwelling/documents/1056646 --- # DEC Decision Notice Penketh Millar Mr John Watling 23 West Quay Ramsey IM8 1DL TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 The Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 In pursuance of powers granted under the above Act and Order the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture determined to APPROVE an application by Mr Angus MacKinnon, Ref 24/00201/B, for the Erection of ground floor extensions and first floor extension to dwelling and widening of driveway to provide additional parking. First floor extension to provide self-contained annexe with additional tourist use at 17 Cronk Drine Union Mills Isle Of Man IM4 4NG . Any conditions or notes which apply to the approval are set out below. This approval is subject to compliance with any conditions listed and may not be implemented until it becomes final (see guidance notes). - 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 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals. - 2. The tourist use hereby approved shall not be used or occupied other than for the purpose of short-let holiday accommodation and shall not be used as a separate dwelling. The accommodation hereby approved shall not be occupied by the same person(s) for a single period or cumulative periods exceeding 28 days in any calendar year. Reason: to ensure that the development is only used and occupied as short let holiday accommodation as the application has been assessed on this basis as set out in the submitted application. - 3. The first floor hereby approved shall not be occupied at any time other than for tourist purposes in line with C2 or incidental to the residential use of the main dwelling and shall not be occupied at any time as an independent dwelling unit. Reason: to ensure that the development is only used and occupied as either short let holiday accommodation or by family or friends incidental to the main house in line with the content as submitted and assessed as part of the application. - 4. Within 12 months of the proposed first floor coming into use all external finishes (elevations, roofs, windows and doors) shall be finished in full accordance with the details shown and annotated on drawing number 23 1793 03 and retained thereafter. Reason: In the interest of visual amenity and the application has been assessed on this basis. - 5. The height of the roofs hereby approved shall be no taller than those details shown on drawing numbers 23 1793 03 and 23 1793 04 being: - o 1250mm from the existing central ridge to proposed central ridge of lower roof; and - o 2000mm from the existing central ridge to proposed central ridge of upper roof. Reason: The application has been assessed on this basis and in the interest of both the visual and neighbouring amenity. This approval relates to the following: - DWG 23 1793 01 Site and Location Plan - DWG 23 1793 02 Survey Drawing - DWG 23 1793 03 Proposal Drawing Photographs 1-9 - all date received 29/02/2024 Email from agent re: levels dated 04/03/2024 Letter from the owner of No. 17 Cronk Drine dated 16/04/2024. - DWG 23 1793 04 Proposed Street Elevation date received 08/05/2024. This decision has been made for the following reasons(s) Minded of the acceptable principle for works in this location, the acceptable visual impact both on the appearance of the existing dwelling and on the character and appearance of the streetscene, as well as the acceptable amenity impacts on the neighbours that the physical alterations and extensions to the dwelling are considered acceptable, and subject to condition the proposed family and tourist use of the upper floor is considered to be acceptable and not to result in any neighbouring amenity impacts nor any highway safety concerns. The proposal is considered to comply with strategic Policy 5, General Policy 2 (b, c, g, h and i), Environment Policy 23, Paragraph 9.5.8, Business Policy 13, Transport Policies 1, 4, 7 and not to undermine Community Policies 7 and 11, or Infrastructure Policy - 5 or Appendix 7 and 7(d) of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016. Date of Issue: 24th July 2024 J CHANCE 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 Town and Country Planning Act 1999 and its subordinate legislation. A copy of the Officer’s report and any correspondence which led to the assessment and decision is available to view on the Government’s website (via Online Services www.gov.im/Viewapplications) or at the Department’s offices Murray House, Mount Havelock, Douglas. Implementation The decision does not become final until either Any appeal has been concluded; or 21 days have passed since the date on this notice and no appeal has been submitted Development must progress in accordance with the plans approved under, and any conditions attached to this approval (irrespective of any changes that may separately be requested at the Building Control stage or by any other Statutory Authority). This approval does not remove the need to also comply with any other relevant legislation. Any conditions requiring certain works, submissions etc. prior to commencement of development must be fulfilled prior to work starting on site. Failure to adhere to this approval and meet the requirements of all conditions may invalidate this approval or result in formal enforcement action. Appeal Any appeal must be in writing and submitted to the Department within 21 days of the date of this Notice. The appeal must contain: the grounds for making the appeal; payment of the planning appeal fee (currently £335); and if relevant, confirmation that the appellant wishes to have the appeal determined by means of an inquiry and payment of the additional inquiry fee (currently £125). Where the appeal is submitted by the applicant they must: specify in detail and by reference to material planning considerations the reasons why the appellant disagrees with that determination; and Where against a refusal, on the grounds of deficient detail or supporting documentation, set out why they consider the information or documentation forming part of the application was sufficient in the circumstance. If the appeal is submitted by someone who has interested Person Status but is not listed in Article 4(2) of the Development Procedure Order 2019, that person must relate their grounds for making the appeal to issues which they included in representations made prior to the application being determined. Failure to meet all of the relevant above requirements will mean that the appeal cannot be validated. An appeal form and more detailed guidance are available either from Planning & Building Control, Tel 685950, or from the Department’s website www.gov.im/planningappeal If this decision becomes final because there is no appeal, the Department’s public reference copy (counter copy) of the planning application (should one have been received) may be collected by the applicant or their agent from Murray House. 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/32068-union-mills-cronk-drine-extension-dwelling/documents/1056646*