**Document:** DEC Decision Notice
**Application:** 14/00032/REM — Reserved Matters Application for erection of an agricultural worker's dwelling
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2014-07-22
**Parish:** Michael
**Document Type:** decision / decision_notice
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/34758-michael-part-field-220846-seafield-farm-reserved-matters/documents/1089669

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# DEC Decision Notice

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## 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 Infrastructure determined to **APPROVE** a planning application by Mr Stuart Christian, Ref **14/00032/REM**, for the Reserved Matters Application for erection of an agricultural worker’s dwelling at Part Field 220846 Seafield Farm Bollyn Road Ballaugh Isle of Man subject to compliance with the following condition(s):

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. No development shall be commenced until a hard and soft landscaping scheme has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. Such a scheme shall include details of all walls, fences, trees, hedgerows and other planting which are to be retained; details of all new walls, fences and other boundary treatment and finished ground levels; a planting specification to include numbers, density, size, species and positions of all new trees and shrubs; the location of grassed areas details of the hard surface treatment of the open parts of the site and a programme of implementation.

All hard and soft landscaping works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the development or in accordance with the programme agreed in writing with the Planning Authority. Any trees or plants indicated on the approved scheme which, within a period of five years from the date of planting, die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced during the next planting season with other trees or plants of a species and size to be first approved in writing by the Planning Authority. All hard landscape works shall be permanently retained in accordance with the approved details.

Reason: To ensure the provision of an appropriate landscape setting to the development.

3. The occupation of the dwelling hereby approved shall be limited to a person engaged or last engaged solely in agriculture on the Isle of Man, or a widow or widower of such a person, or any resident dependants.

Reason: The site is in an area where new dwellings are not normally approved except where an agricultural need has been established and accepted by the Planning Authority.

4. Prior to the occupation of the dwelling visibility, splays of $2 \times 18$ metres are required to be provided from the access to the dwelling onto the farm lane and retained thereafter.

Reason: In the interests of highway safety and to ensure safe access to and from the application site.

This approval relates to the submitted documents, all received on 13th January 2014, and the submitted plan 684-05H, received on 23rd May 2014.

Date of Issue:
22nd July 2014

M Gallagher

Director of Planning and Building Control **Guidance Note** This decision was made by the Planning Committee in accordance with the authority delegated to it. This permission refers only to that required under the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No 2) Order 2013. Any appeal against this decision must be in accordance with Article 8 of the Order.

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 an order made by the Department under Section 1(1) of the Fees and Duties Act 1989 (currently £150);
- 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 note are available from either Planning & Building Control, Tel 685950, or to download from the Department’s website http://www.gov.im/categories/planning-and-building-control/planning-development-control/planning-appeals/how-to-appeal/

Please note that a copy of the Officer’s report which led to the decision, together with correspondence relative to the application, are available for inspection at the Department.

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.

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.

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*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/).*
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