**Document:** Friends of Onchan Heritage Objection Letter **Application:** 10/00513/B — Reinstate slate canopy and shop front windows to premises **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2010-06-04 **Parish:** Braddan **Document Type:** consultation / representation **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/36262-braddan-royal-buildings-windows/documents/1352239 --- # Friends of Onchan Heritage Objection Letter ## The Friends of Onchan's Heritage **Secretary:** Evelyn Park, llegado, fallando brice, onchan tel 621739 **Conservation Officer:** Peter Kelly, 32 Alverta Drive, onchan tel 621733 1000513 **RECEIVED ON** - 8 MAR 2010 **RECEIVED ON** 12 APR 2010 **REPUBLISHMENT OF** **UNITED STATES** **INTERNATIONAL** **DEPARTMENT OF** **UNITED STATES** Dear Miss Callow, PA 10/00162 Proposed replacement windows, Royal Building, Royal Avenue/Main Road Onchan Applicant: Hartford Homes Limited We have viewed the plans submitted in respect of this application. Your records will reveal that your department went through the process of Registration for this building but its Registration was delayed by the Conservation Officer "until the alterations had taken place". On the basis that the building is to be Registered then the details submitted with this planning application are lacking. There is no larger scale drawing/section of the windows or their components such as glazing bars - internal and external, method of opening etc. The planning statement submitted with the application states that the replacements will be "an exact visual match to the design". Nowhere on the plan or in the planning statement does it say that the windows are to be sliding sash or whether there are to be horns or not. No mention is made of the decorative timber moulding above the long window on the Royal Avenue elevation. Correspondence has been submitted from two manufacturers which is principally to say in the long run the present windows would be better replaced rather than repaired. This of course is contrary to the department's policy on window replacement in Registered Buildings. The letter from Marvin refers to new wood sliding sash windows whilst the letter from Homecrafts (Brigg) Limited gives no details of materials or method of opening. No indication is given as to which of these firms, if any, are to make the windows so we are only left with the planning statement referring to "an exact visual match to the design". This is too much open to personal interpretation and the application should not be approved as it stands. We would ask that further details be sought from the applicant in respect of materials to be used and method of opening. Details showing a section through the windows and of the arrangement for glazing bars internal and external. These should then be made available for inspection by all those who have submitted views on the application. The application should not be approved "Subject to" - if this building has been deemed worthy of Registration then this information should be in place before any decision is made. With regard to the metal window frames, these were installed when the building was converted from a butcher's shop to Martins Bank in the 1930s. Attached is a photograph taken in the days of Nivison's butcher shop which shows timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor and a slate canopy all of which was part of Armitage Rigby's design for the combined house and shop. Even the reintroduction of timber sliding sash windows in the form shown in the photograph would enhance the property. The reintroduction of the canopy would be a credit to anyone involved. Perhaps the Conservation Officer could discuss this with the applicant prior to the submission of further details in any event. Yours truly Conservation Officer. Enc. ![A black and white historical photograph showing a corner commercial building with a shop front and canopy.](https://images.planningportal.im/2010/04/265274.jpg) --- *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/36262-braddan-royal-buildings-windows/documents/1352239*