**Document:** Officer Planning Report Recommendation **Application:** 09/00663/B — Installation of replacement windows **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2009-07-14 **Parish:** Arbory **Document Type:** report / officer_report **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/63097-arbory-lhagagh-level-windows-replacement/documents/1376928 --- # Officer Planning Report Recommendation **Application No.:** 09/00663/B **Applicant:** Mr William Hodgett **Proposal:** Installation of replacement windows **Site Address:** Lhagagh The Level Colby Isle Of Man IM9 4AG ### Considerations Case Officer : Miss S E Corlett **Expected Decision Level:** Senior Planning Officer ### Written Representations ### Consultations Consultee : Highways Division Notes : Consultee : Rushen Commissioners Notes: no objections. ### Officer's Report ### The Site The site represents the residential curtilage of an existing dwelling situated on the northern side of the A7 Main Road to the east of The Level. The property is a traditionally proportioned property which has had a red tiled roof added at some point in time and plastic framed side hung casements in the first floor of the front elevation. The ground floor windows are installed in wide apertures and have wooden framed casements forming a three pane pattern in each. ### Planning Status The site lies within an area designated on the Arbory and East Rushen Local Plan as an Area of High Landscape or Coastal Value and Scenic Significance. The site is not within a Conservation Area nor is the building Registered. ### Planning History The following applications have been submitted in respect of this property: PA 85/0173 - erection of garden shed, construction of parking bay and formation of new vehicular access - permitted PA 91/1567 - installation of 450 litre lpg tank - refused PA 92/0007 - installation of 450 litre lpg tank - refused PA 01/2624 - installation of uPVC windows for first floor front elevation - permitted ## The Proposal Proposed is the replacement of the ground floor windows in a pattern to match the existing and a material to match those above. ### Representations Rushen Parish Commissioners indicate that they have no objection to the application. ### Assessment Planning Circular 3/91 requires that where buildings were built before 1921 and they have not retained their original character, as is the case here, new windows should match the originals which would have been sliding sash. Whether the aperture would have been as wide as is presently the case is unlikely. However, the upper floor windows have been permitted relatively recently to be replaced in a style which would not replicate the original style which would have been sliding sash. As such, and bearing in mind the size and shape of the apertures on the ground floor and the material of the roofing, it is considered that the windows as proposed are acceptable. ### 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: 24.06.2009 ### Conditions and Notes for Approval / Reasons and Notes for Refusal ### C : Conditions for approval
N : Notes attached to conditions
R : Reasons for refusal
0 : Notes attached to refusals C 1. The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice. C 2. This permission relates to the replacement of the windows as shown and described in the plans received on 9th April, 2009. I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular No 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 Signed : ______________________________ Senior Planning Officer 24 June 2009 09/00663/B --- *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/63097-arbory-lhagagh-level-windows-replacement/documents/1376928*