**Document:** Planning Officer Report Recommendation **Application:** 04/01177/B — Alterations to main part of dwelling and extension and conversion of annex to form a seperate dwelling **Decision:** Refused **Decision Date:** 2004-08-24 **Parish:** German **Document Type:** report / officer_report **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/76195-german-beech-house-formerly-conversion-extension/documents/1200245 --- # Planning Officer Report Recommendation ## Planning Report And Recommendations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Considerations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Written Representations We have received no private representations for this application. ### Consultations [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Policy ### Officer's Report The site relates to Beech House, Whitestrand, Lhergydhoo, between Peel and Knocksharry. The property was originally two cottages but it has been unsympathetically extended over the years and retains little of its original character. It is proposed to alter and extend the dwelling to allow conversion back to two dwellings. The smaller two storey element would be extended by 4.2 metres. This would form one dwelling. The larger part of the existing house would remain largely unaltered apart from a new front porch and a new window to the rear. Both dwellings would retain a parking area and garden area and the plan indicate how the residential curtilages would be divided up. Currently the property is quite prominent when viewed from the road. The alterations would increase the mass of the building but the changes would give the impression of two properties instead of one and the front open porches break up the rather bland front exterior. The highway's division is concerned about the sight splays but the access points onto the road are currently available and the intensification of use of the site for residential purposes may increase the number of vehicles parking off the highway but it is judged that this would not be so harmful as to warrant refusal. The Commissioners judge the extension to be too imposing. I do not share this view; the changes would introduce front doors to both dwellings, which would be a visual improvement. ### Recommendation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 11.08.2004 ### Conditions and Notes for Approval / Reasons and Notes for Refusal C: Conditions for approval N: Notes attached to conditions R: Reasons for refusal O: Notes attached to refusals C 1. The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice. C 2. This approval relates to drawing numbers 662.1, 662.2 and 662.3. C 3. The roof(s) must be finished in dark natural slate. N 4. The Chief Fire Officer recommends the installation of mains wired interconnected domestic smoke detection. Decision Made: ... Committee Meeting Date: ... dcreprec.doc 1. The creation of two dwellings from what is presently a single dwelling, together with an extension of the existing fabric, would increase the amount of traffic coming to and leaving the site, using an access which is not considered safe, due to limited visibility for drivers of emerging vehicles. 2. The increase in size of what is already a substantial building alongside the roadway is not considered acceptable, due to the resultant increase of usual impact. SBC 20/8/04 --- *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/76195-german-beech-house-formerly-conversion-extension/documents/1200245*