**Document:** Drainage Division Consultation Response
**Application:** 05/92194/A — Approval in principle for the erection of a replacement dwelling with detached garage (Re-submission)
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2006-01-18
**Parish:** Arbory
**Document Type:** consultation / consultation_response
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/79767-colby-silver-beech-replacement-garage/documents/1215324

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# Drainage Division Consultation Response

## Isle of Man
### Government

**The Secretary,**
Planning Committee
Department of Local Government
and the Environment,
Murray House,
Douglas.

RECEIVED ON
- 9 DEC 2005
DEPT. OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
AND THE ENVIRONMENT

**Contact:** Ian Wade
**Our ref:** 05/92194/A
**Your ref:** 05/92194/A

**Drainage Division**
Meary Veg
Balnahowe, Santon
IM4 1HL
Telephone (01624) 693511
Fax (01624) 693502
Email Ian.Wade@gov.im

8 December 2005

Dear Sir,

**PA 05/92194/A – Approval in principle for the erection of a replacement dwelling with detached garage (Re-submission), Silver Beech Glen Road Colby, Arbory.**

The plans for the proposed development have been inspected and the Drainage Division of the Department of Transport requests that the following comments be passed to your Planning Committee: -

The applicant has stated that the foul sewage from the proposed replacement dwelling will be discharged into the existing septic tank. The Division will require that any replacement dwelling on this site be connected to the existing public sewer foul situated within Glen Road Colby. The applicant is advised to discuss this connection with the Division prior to submitting a detailed planning application.

**NO OBJECTION** In principle subject to: -

1) The proposed development must be connected to the public foul sewer. Full details of the foul and surface water disposal routes from this dwelling must be submitted as part of any subsequent detailed planning application.

A Communication Fee will be payable to the Department of Transport in respect of this drainage connection.

2) There must be NO discharge of surface water (directly or indirectly) from this proposed development to any foul drainage systems so as to comply with the requirements of the Department of Transport Drainage Division.

It is noted that the surface water from the property is to be discharged via a soakaway. The use of soakaways are subject to Building Control approval and if this approval is not granted, the Drainage Division would **not** give permission for the discharge of

surface water into the existing foul system and an alternative means of disposal would have to be sought.

The Division strongly recommends that the necessary percolation tests are carried out and approved, prior to any detailed planning application being submitted in order to support the soakaway proposal.

In the event that this application is approved I should be grateful if these comments could be incorporated in the approval notice. Yours faithfully,

Ian Wade
Assistant Engineer
Development Control

c.c. Applicant/Agent

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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/79767-colby-silver-beech-replacement-garage/documents/1215324*