**Document:** SPMCE and Highways Responses
**Application:** 06/01633/B — Removal of cornice to front elevation and replacement of existing render
**Decision:** Refused
**Decision Date:** 2006-11-29
**Parish:** Braddan
**Document Type:** consultation / consultation_response
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/81502-braddan-76-allan-replacement/documents/1225001

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# SPMCE and Highways Responses

## Society for the Preservation of the Manx Countryside and Environment

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FOUNDED 1938
REGD. CHARITY (IOM) No.391
PATRON: HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
CHAIRMAN CHARLES FLYNN 31, FIRST AVENUE DOUGLAS
HON. SECRETARY MRS. M.B. CRELLIN CRONK ny GREINEY, GLASHEN CLOSE, BALLASALLA, MALEW

ON PLANNING ISSUES PLEASE REPLY TO:
S.P.M.C.& E c/o Glebe Cottage, Maughold, (via Ramsey) IM7 1AS
Phone 815748 Email: iankbleasdale@manx.net

Secretary to the Planning Committee,
Department of Planning & the Environment,
Murray House,
DOUGLAS
Dear Ms. Callow,

SPMC&E VIEWS ON APPLICATIONS from WEEKLY LIST 2006/39-- List dated 05/10/06
as sent Date of this response --05/10/06

See 04/0744 approved but expired? Large farm, c.380 acres but no plan to show where the land lies. The applicants well knew there was no house on the holding when they bought it. Similar to the Carnegie situation (05/0226). In these circumstances PPG7 advises against permission. Quite a large house detailed and quite a nice design. Nevertheless, the Society STRONGLY OBJECTS to a new house in the countryside, the need for which arises entirely from the splitting-up of holdings which we abhor. (It this the fault of Estate Agents, one wonders?)

The applicant says “This is a natural dip in the land” and thereby damns the proposal. The landscape of the I.o.M. is, in the Society’s view, a precious resource and should not lightly be interfered with. Had the DAFF certified that this filling operation was a vital requirement of agricultural productivity, there might be a case for it but not otherwise.

The photographs seem to show a small dam across the valley and the dip beyond has the appearance of a recently drained reservoir. That being so it WILL be wet and marshy, at least for a time. The Method Statement, incidentally, seems to make no provision for land-drains under the fill, so that too will become wet and marshy!

The coastline between Ramsey, passing through Dog Mills, and on to the Point-of-Ayre, is an important geological resource, especially the exposed cliffs – see Chapter 7 Volume 1 of “A New History of the Isle of Man” Liverpool University 2006. If imported fill material is going to be allowed to leach down onto these cliffs, it will spoil the Geological Sequences therein displayed. The Society OBJECTS.

No indication of the reasoning behind this proposal. Though not in a Conservation Area, the Society considers the despoliation of classical architectural features, regrettable. We OBJECT.

Yours sincerely,

The Highways Division of the Department of Transport has no views on the following applications, the applications having been considered, the response is:

**Do Not Oppose**

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