**Document:** Decision Notice
**Application:** 22/00475/B — Construction of 18 houses and associated infrastructure
**Decision:** Refused
**Decision Date:** 2024-10-31
**Parish:** Marown
**Document Type:** decision / decision_notice
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/54548-crosby-crosby-meadows-estate/documents/1098824

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# Decision Notice

Mr Mark Pearce MP Associates Ltd 12 Strathallan Crescent Douglas IM2 4NR

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 subordinate Orders and Regulations, the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture determined to REFUSE an application by Mr Mark Pearce, Ref 22/00475/B, for the Construction of 18 houses and associated infrastructure at Crosby Meadows Estate Part Fields 320653, 324323, 324324, 324321 , 324318, 320649 & 324320 Ballaglonney Main Road Crosby IM4 2EE for the following reason(s):

- 1. The inclusion of the proposed new dwellings on plots 37, 38 & 39 given their proximity to the existing residential properties to the southeast would represent an overdevelopment of the site given their proximity and intervening distances would result in significant adverse impact upon the residential amenity of the proposed and existing houses contrary to General Policy 2 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016 and the Residential Design Guide 2021.
- 2. The proposed private sewers to the northwest of plots 33 to 39 would represent development outside of land designated for development on the Area Plan for the East Map 10 and would be contrary to the identified settlement boundaries and contrary to Spatial Policy 4 and Environment Policy 1 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016.
- 3. It is considered the external amenity space provided for plots 33 to 39 would fall below the provision for the requirements of "External Space" standards and "Gardens" as laid out in the Design Guide - Affordable Housing Standards (DOI - Housing Division 2016).

Date of Issue: 31st October 2024

J CHANCE 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 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.

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 £355); 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 £130).

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.

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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/).*
*Canonical page: https://planningportal.im/a/54548-crosby-crosby-meadows-estate/documents/1098824*