**Document:** Officer Planning Report Recommendations **Application:** 06/01834/B — Alterations and extensions to provide Board Room, Clerks Office and Store **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2006-12-22 **Parish:** Lezayre **Document Type:** report / officer_report **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/81673-sulby-community-hall/documents/1480550 --- # Officer Planning Report Recommendations ## Planning Report And Recommendations [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Considerations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Written Representations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Consultations [Table omitted in markdown export] Furniture inside the boardroom / office should be loose so it can be moved around if a wheelchair user is attending a meeting or working. **Consulttee:** Wildlife & Conservation Officer **Notes:** Condition that a plan for the protection of the bats is agreed with DAFF and DLGE before the works can take place. --- ### Officer’s Report #### The Application Site The site Community Hall, Clenagh Road, Sulby, is a single storey pitched roofed detached property which is located on the southern side of Clenagh Road, and south of Sulby Village. #### Planning Policy The application site is within an area recognised as being an area of area of buildings for civic, cultural and other special use, more specifically a community use, under the Sulby Local Plan Order 1998. The site is not within a Conservation Area, or within an area zoned as high landscape value. #### Proposal The application proposes alterations and extensions to provide Board Room, Clerks Office and Store. The proposed pitched roofed single storey extension is attached to the north elevation of the existing hall and would have an overall projection of 12 metres from that elevation. The extension would have a width of 11.6 metres and a maximum height of 5.7 metres. #### Representations Lezayre Parish Commissioners advise that they are the interested party in this application. **Highways Division:** *The existing car park provides sufficient parking facilities for the additional traffic which may be generated by this proposal.* **Chief Fire Officer:** *Applicant is advised to consult with the Fire Safety Department as this premises falls within the scope of the Fire Precautions Act 1975.* **Wildlife & Conservation Officer:** *Hall has a colony of brown long-eared bats.* *Condition that a plan for the protection of the bats is agreed with DAFF and DLGE before the works can take place.* The owner and/or Elm View, Clannagh Road, does not object to the design of the proposal, but have concerns about the impact upon our property at the rear, therefore would appreciate the ridge level of the proposal be as low as possible. #### Assessment / Recommendation Material Planning matters which need to be considered regarding this application include: 1. Impact upon residential amenity. *Impact upon residential amenity* Initial concerns relating to what impacts the proposal would have upon the two dwellings to the east of the proposal (Elm View and The Elms), particularly from loss of light and/or the extension having an overbearing impact. However after visiting the site and studying the plans in more detail, I do not think either of these concerns will arise significantly to warrant a refusal. The reason for my opinion is due to a number of reasons, firstly within the rear yard of "Elm View" there is a two storey outbuilding, which would screen the majority of the extension, and secondary, the proposed extensions size, height and siting in relation with the neighbouring properties have been take into account and the extension has been designed to limit the impacts upon the neighbouring properties. For these reasons the proposal would seem appropriate in this location and therefore my recommendation is for an approval. ### Party Status I consider that the following meet the criteria of Government Circular 1/06 and should be afforded interested party status: - Lezayre Parish Commissioners - Highways Division - Wildlife & Conservation Officer - Elm View, Clannagh Road I consider that the following parties that made representations to the planning application do not meet the criteria of Government Circular 1/06 and should not be afforded interested party status: - Chief Fire Officer - Disability Access Officer ### Recommendation **Recommended Decision:** Permitted **Date of Recommendation:** 18.12.2006 ### 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. The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice. C 2. This approval relates to the submitted documents and drawings 06 0022/2, 06 0022/3 and 06 0022/4 all received on 25th October 2006. C 3. Prior to the commencement of any works, there must be submitted to and approved by The Department and The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry a plan for the protection of the brown long-eared bats which has a colony within the hall. N 1. Applicant is advised to consult with the Fire Safety Department as this premises falls within the scope of the Fire Precautions Act 1975. I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular Nos 44/05 (Delegation of Functions to Director of Planning and Building Control) and 47/05 (Delegation of Functions to Senior Planning Officer) Decision Made : Permitted Date : 21/12/06 Signed : [Handwritten signature] M. I. McCauley Director of Planning and Building Control --- *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/81673-sulby-community-hall/documents/1480550*