**Document:** Officer Planning Report
**Application:** 07/02145/B — Conversion of existing garage to provide additional living accommodation
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2008-01-14
**Parish:** Braddan
**Document Type:** report / officer_report
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/84286-braddan-gorsecroft-abbeyfield-conversion-garage/documents/1516016

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# Officer Planning Report

## 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 ### Consultations

### Officer's Report

The proposal is convert the existing garage into a habitable room. The proposal will have very little impact on the visual amenities of the locality. There is sufficient parking within the site. I therefore recommend that planning permission be granted subject to conditions.

The Isle of Man Fire and Rescue Service have recommended that the application be refused as the playroom is an inner room and the means of escape in case of a fire would be via a utility room. The Fire Service considers this to be unsafe if the utility room was the room where the fire had originated. The safe nature of the extension is a building control matter and not a material planning consideration. I therefore attach no weight to the Fire Services comments.

### 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.

Whilst Isle of Man Fire and Rescue Service represents a statutory authority, the points raised in correspondence relate to Building Control matters and not planning and as such should not be afforded party status in this instance.

### Recommendation

**Recommended Decision:** Permitted

**Date of Recommendation:** 10.01.2008

### Conditions and Notes for Approval / Reasons and Notes for Refusal

**C : Conditions for approval** **N : Notes attached to conditions** **R : Reasons for refusal** **O : 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 conversion of an existing garage into living accommodation as shown in drawing numbers 2145/1, 2145/2, 2145/3, 2145/4, 2145/5, 2145/6, 2145/7 and photographs date stamped 20th November 2007.

## **C 3.**

No facing materials shall be used other than materials similar to those used on the existing building.

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 :** 11/1/08

**Signed :**

M. I. McCauley

Director of Planning and Building Control

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*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/84286-braddan-gorsecroft-abbeyfield-conversion-garage/documents/1516016*