**Document:** Officer Planning Report Recommendations **Application:** 05/00385/B — Proposed two mounded 20 tonne LPG storage vessels to replace six 2 tonne LPG tanks and two vaporisers to replace one and adjustment to existing gates (amendments to approved 04/01150/B) **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2005-06-21 **Parish:** German **Document Type:** report / officer_report **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/78174-german-gas-works-replacement/documents/1208141 --- # Officer Planning Report Recommendations ## Planning Report And Recommendations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Considerations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Written Representations Mrs Shirley O'Neil ### Consultations [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Policy ### Officer's Report The site represents the curtilage of the gas works in Peel, located on the southern side of Station Road, between Patrick Street and Mill Road. The site presently accommodates a gas holder, boiler control room, existing tanks a mixing room and tanker bay with two access points off Mill Road. Previously under PA 04/1150, permission was granted for the installation of two mounded LPG storage vessels to replace existing six tanks and two vaporisers to replace the existing single vaporiser. This approval was granted subject to a condition which required sound measurements taken before the installations, measured from the boundary of numbers 7 and 11, Station Road. A condition was also attached requiring that noise levels may not exceed the existing levels. If it was found that the new operations create a greater level of noise then attenuating measures were to be submitted to and approved by the Planning Authority and be operational within 6 months. This latest application proposes an amendment to that approved scheme. No objections were received from the Department of Transport with that scheme however, they have objected this time. I have asked them by e-mail to clarify this stance (20/04/05). The change in the scheme relates to the raising of the level of the storage tanks and the walling around them and the erection of walling atop the bank at the rear to screen the additional height proposed. Also proposed is the recession of the gates at the entrance closest to 7, Station Road although the actual access onto the road will remain the same. The capacity of the tanks is increasing from 2no 15 tonne vessels to 2no 20 tonne vessels. This should not affect anything other than the appearance and the additional height. The fact that more gas is being stored in the vessels will not affect noise but may require less frequent filling and vehicle movements in this respect. The height of the tank is increasing from 3m to 4.3m and the width from 2.2 to 2.9m with the walling increasing respectively. Await response of Department of Transport to my e-mail. I have received no response. I see no reason to object to this on highway grounds if the previous application was not considered to be objectionable. ### Recommendation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 14.06.2005 ### Conditions and Notes for Approval / Reasons and Notes for Refusal C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions R : Reasons for refusal - : 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 permission relates to the installation of lpg storage vessels, vaporisers and associated works, all as shown in drawings received on 3rd March, 2005 and the side elevation received on 20th April, 2005. ### C 3. The development hereby approved shall not increase the level of noise at the boundary of the two nearest residential properties. Once the new vessels are in place and the delivery methods in operation, additional noise data shall be submitted to the Planning Committee within 3 months to demonstrate that the ambient noise levels at the boundary of the nearest residential properties are no greater than existing levels. If this evidence should demonstrate that there has been an increase in noise, a scheme must be submitted to and approved by the Planning Committee to show that noise attenuation measures are to be put in place. Such a scheme must be in place and operational within 6 months of the date that the new vessels are in place and the delivery methods become operational. ### C 4. Construction works, including the use of machinery, may only be carried out between the hours of 0800 and 1800 on any weekday (Monday to Friday). No construction works may take place nor machinery used on any Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday. ### N 1. The applicant is encouraged to consider a delivery system which uses the two access points as an "in and out" method, namely to allow vehicles to enter the site from the northern entrance and exit via the southern entrance next to the boiler control room. Decision Made : ... Committee Meeting Date : ... --- *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/78174-german-gas-works-replacement/documents/1208141*