**Document:** Design Statement Ballabeg Stores **Application:** 17/00178/B — Alterations to facilitate change of use of ground floor retail unit (class 1) to tourist accommodation and first floor apartment from permanent residential to tourist accommodation **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2017-04-04 **Parish:** Malew **Document Type:** report / design_access_statement **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/21931-malew-the-stores-change-of-use/documents/1323181 --- # Design Statement Ballabeg Stores ## Design Statement ### Proposed conversion to tourist accommodation ### Ballabeg Stores
Main Road Ballabeg ### Site Assessment The site is a square shaped piece of land on a corner of the main road as it passes through Ballabeg opposite the junction to the B42. The site accommodates a ground floor retail unit and a first floor apartment. ### Planning History Planning permission was approval in 2008 for the demolition of the old shop and replaced with a ground floor retail unit with residential accommodation at first floor level. The building was constructed and completed in 2010. Since building completion the retail unit and the accommodation over has lay empty. ### Design Proposal The proposal is to convert the ground floor retail unit into tourist accommodation and to change the use of the first floor apartment into tourist accommodation with alterations to the fenestration to the front and rear elevations. ### Access Access to the property will be unaffected. ### Parking Two off-street parking spaces have been provided to the front of the building. (This area was designated as parking for the retail unit) The garage will be shared by the two units, and will provide space for alternative means of transport e.g. Bicycles and motor bikes but not for car parking. There is additional parking within the nearby public car park shown on the site plan. ![A photograph showing the rear elevation of a white, two-story building with an external metal staircase leading to the first floor. The property is situated in a grassy area with other stone buildings visible in the b...](https://images.planningportal.im/2017/02/184299.jpg) Front elevation Rear elevation ![Front elevation photograph of a two-story stone building featuring a large ground floor window, a red door with a white canopy, and a garage door.](https://images.planningportal.im/2017/02/184298.jpg) First floor plan (Proposed) (Scale 1:100) 1 5 FEB 2017 194717/00178 BUILDING CONTROL DIVISION and Country Planning Act 1999 Client Ballabeg Property Ltd Job Title Proposed conversion, Ballabeg Stores, Main Road, Ballabeg. 194717/00178 Date 1:100 1:100 Scale 15/02/17 1765-sk01 5 The Quay Port St Mary Isle of Man IM9 5EA Dry Title First floor plan (Proposed) 1765-sk01 Rev --- *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/21931-malew-the-stores-change-of-use/documents/1323181*