**Document:** Officer Planning Report Recommendations **Application:** 10/00118/R — Installation of storage container (Retrospective) **Decision:** Refused **Decision Date:** 2012-03-21 **Parish:** Lezayre **Document Type:** report / officer_report **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/1831-lezayre-west-kella-road-storage-container-retrospective/documents/1257774 --- # Officer Planning Report Recommendations ## Planning Report And Recommendations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Considerations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Written Representations ### Consultations [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Officer's Report #### The Site The application site is within the curtilage of West Kella Lezayre and relates to Field 130744. The site is located adjacent to the house and agricultural outbuildings. #### The Proposal Proposed is the installation of a temporary storage container for agricultural storage. The storage container which would be painted green would be sited alongside one of the boundary lines of the field so as to be shielded from view by Leylandii hedging and bramble, gorse and thorn hedging. #### Planning History There have been previous applications with regard to the main house and outbuildings at West Kella Lezayre, but none apply to Field 130744. #### Development Plan Policies West Kella is located in an area of "White Land" (countryside) identified on the 1982 Development Plan. The site is located adjacent to an "Area of High Landscape Value or Coastal Value and Scenic Significance". The proposal should be assessed against the Environment Policy 15 from the Isle of Man Strategic Plan (20th June 2007). ## Consultations Lezayre Commissioners respectfully enquire what will be stored in the container. Department of Transport Highways and Traffic Division have made no comment with regard to the application. ### Assessment Due to the nature of the proposal, Environment Policy 15 is considered relevant in the assessment, the Policy states: "Where the Department is satisfied that there is agricultural or horticultural need for a new building (including a dwelling), sufficient to outweigh the general policy against development in the countryside, and that the impact of this development including buildings, accesses, servicing etc. is acceptable, such development must be sited as close as is practically possible to existing building groups and be appropriate in terms of scale, materials, colour, siting and form to ensure that all new developments are sympathetic to the landscape and built environment of which they will form a part. Only in exceptional circumstances will buildings be permitted in exposed or isolated areas or close to public highways and in all such cases will be subject to appropriate landscaping. The nature and materials of construction must also be appropriate to the purposes for which it is intended. Where new agricultural buildings are proposed next to or close to existing residential properties, care must be taken to ensure that there is no unacceptable adverse impact through any activity, although it must be borne in mind that many farming activities require buildings which are best sited, in landscape terms, close to existing building groups in rural landscapes." Having assessed the proposal in light of the above policy, it is considered that the siting of the storage container would be sufficiently sheltered by the existing trees and hedging, and would be painted green to improve the visual amenity. It is judged that the storage container would be an acceptable distance from the highway, and would not be highly visible from the public highway. The proposal would respect the landscape in terms of scale and colour; the boundary treatment would shelter the container sufficiently so as not to have an adverse impact on the surrounding area. For the above reasons the application is considered acceptable, and is recommended for approval. ### Party Status The Department of Transport and the Local Authority are, by virtue of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2005, paragraph 6 (5) (c) and (d), considered "interested persons" and as such should be afforded party status. ### Recommendation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 24.03.2010 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. This permission relates to the installation of a temporary storage container shown on the Site Plan and Location Plan received 2nd February 2010 and Enforcement Photographs date stamped 30th November 2009. ### C 2. The storage container shall be painted green or such other colours as may be agreed with the Planning Authority within one month of the final decision notice. ### C 3. The storage container shall be removed from site no later than the 1st June 2012. I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular No 09/09 Delegation of functions, 10/09 Delegation of Functions (Development Procedure), GC No 11/09 (Advertisements) and GC No 12/09 (Registered Buildings) all to the Senior Planning Officer Decision Made : Permitted Date : Signed : Senior Planning Officer --- *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/1831-lezayre-west-kella-road-storage-container-retrospective/documents/1257774*