**Document:** Officer Planning Report Recommendation
**Application:** 04/01469/A — Approval in principle for the erection of an agricultural workers retirement dwelling on
**Decision:** Refused
**Decision Date:** 2004-09-07
**Parish:** Malew
**Document Type:** report / officer_report
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/76381-malew-county-series-1796-dwelling-outline/documents/1416950

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# Officer Planning Report Recommendation

## Planning Report And Recommendations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Considerations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Written Representations We have received no private representations for this application. ### Consultations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Policy

### Officer's Report

The site represents nine fields, incompletely defined in blue situated in two parcels - one on the eastern side of the Grenaby Road between Grenaby and Ballavell, the other on the B40 between Grenaby and Ballatrollag.

Proposed here is the principle of the erection of a farm worker's dwelling. The limited information given with the application indicates that the applicant intends to retire and hand the farm over to his children. The applicant lives at Balladuggan: the new house would be some distance from this on the other road to the north east of Ballatrollag. There is an application presently being considered for removal of an agricultural tie in respect of Ballavarkish Beg, some 600m down the road (which is closer to this site than is Balladuggan. The land identified in the plan amounts to 11ha (27 acres). This would not justify a new dwelling and there is little in the way of supporting information.

### Recommendation

## 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

R 1.

The Planning Committee is not persuaded that what is defined on the application as the holding relating to this proposal justifies the erection of a further dwelling on land which is not designated for development. In addition, the siting of the dwelling is some distance from the existing farm dwelling and as such would not comply with the guidance given in Planning Circular 3/88 - new agricultural dwellings and would represent an unwarranted intrusion into the countryside.

Note: the Planning Committee would have expected the application to have been accompanied by full justification for a new dwelling including stocking levels, the nature of the farm operations, the role which would be played by those who would occupy the new dwelling together with information about present staffing levels in relation to the farm and where those persons presently reside.

Decision Made : ...
Committee Meeting Date : ...

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