**Document:** Planning Statement Approval Principle **Application:** 07/01763/REM — Reserved matters application for the conversion of former hotel into four self contained apartments and two town houses **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2007-11-20 **Parish:** Rushen **Document Type:** report / planning_statement **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/83918-rushen-hotel-promenade-conversion/documents/1231923 --- # Planning Statement Approval Principle Approval in Principle Proposed Conversion of Former Hotel into Apartments Bayview Hotel Port Erin for Hesketh Investments Limited ## Planning Statement Prepared by: McGarrigle + Jackson 19 Mount Havelock Douglas IMI 2QG Tel: 628141 Fax: 629334 email: info@mcgarrigle-jackson.com web: www.mcgarrigle-jackson.com The subject site is the former Bay View Hotel occupying a prominent corner of the Promenade and Bay View Road Pot Erin. The building is a good example of mid Victorian period Architecture [see photographs in Appendix 1]. And when used as a hotel had 21 bedrooms in addition to normal hotel facilities and function rooms. The last use of the building from 1994 until quite recently was a University Hall of Residence in conjunction with The Marine Biological Station. The building has suffered fairly severe fire damage through the main staircase area, but otherwise remains largely intact and unaltered externally. The roof has been recently renewed in sympathetic materials. ### Proposals: The present proposals seek to extend the life of this building by completely refurbishing the interior and converting to 4 one bedroomed self-contained apartments and 2 No 3 bedroomed town houses. The apartments are approximately 65m² providing large open areas to take advantage of the irregular shape of the existing building and panoramic views. It is intended to incorporate a lift to each floor and provide secure entry and it is felt that this will be particularly attractive to older people and younger professionals especially with the village centre location. The Town houses provide accommodation on 3 floors within the narrow outlet area to Bay View Road. Externally the alterations will be minimal and confined to the bay window w at ground floor level and replacement of windows with similar matching pattern PVC-u. ### Car Parking: A meeting was held on the 22nd February 2007 with Mr D Sewell of the DoT and the current street parking was discussed and is shown on the site plan as follows:- Area A 5/6 spaces immediately adjacent to the subject site on Bay View Road. Area B 10 spaces between Mona House and Arnside. On Bay View Road. Area C 8 spaces opposite, and adjacent to The Erin Art Centre on Bay View Road. Area D Nearby public car parking [Shoprite and Orchard Walk] in Bay View Road. Mr Sewell considered that the preferred option was to provide integral parking within the building curtilage, it was explained that the site of the town houses is in fact only just over 5m deep and therefore inadequate for garaging. The space suggested was on the ground floor area of town house No 1 the maximum number of spaces possible would be 2. It was further explained to Mr Sewell that in the providing these 2 spaces within the building 2 street spaces would be lost in forming access and therefore was impractical in these circumstances. We feel that the occupancy expected is much less than the last use, i.e. accommodation for 19 students and formerly a hotel. We also consider the vehicle use by the expected occupants would probably be a maximum of 6 together with the central Village location the impact on the current street and Public parking areas will be minimal. The Port Erin local plan policy 7.8 qualifies the parking requirements for residential development by saying that the standards will not necessarily be universally applied in Village centre locations. ### Planning: A meeting was held on the 26th February 2007 with Miss Sarah Corlett Planning Officer for the area and she felt that the proposals were an appropriate and a good use of the building. Miss Corlett also thought that the building was of Architectural interest and considered the incorporation of vehicle access doors to the ground floor inappropriate, particularly as the spaces to be provide would result in the loss of a similar number on the Street. ### Summary: - The building is presently unoccupied and has suffered quite severe fire damage; it has been on the market for some time and is slowly deteriorating. - The proposed use is considered appropriate, particularly in the Village Centre. - The proposals envisaged require minimal external alteration. - Car parking envisaged is less than the requirements of the previous users of the building, and the present Street and public parking are able to absorb the small number of vehicles expected - The application is in outline only at this stage. --- *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/83918-rushen-hotel-promenade-conversion/documents/1231923*