**Document:** Officer Planning Report **Application:** 08/00692/B — Conversion of garage to provide additional storage area **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2008-05-23 **Parish:** Lezayre **Document Type:** report / officer_report **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/85406-lezayre-lloyds-tsb-bank-conversion-garage/documents/1525755 --- # Officer Planning Report ## Planning Report And Recommendations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Considerations [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Written Representations ### Consultations [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] ### Officer's Report Site The site represents the curtilage of the Lloyds TSB Bank, 71 Parliament Street, Ramsey, which is part of a row of terraced properties located on the southern side of Parliament Street, which is within the centre of Ramsey Town Centre. Land Use Zoning / Planning Policy The dwelling has been zoned under the Ramsey Local Plan Order 1998 as being within a ‘Mixed Use’ (town centre); the site is also within a Conservation Area. - Ramsey Local Plan Order 1998 - Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2007 Planning History There are no previous planning applications which are considered relevant in the assessment and determination of this application. Proposal The application seeks approval for the conversion of garage to provide additional storage area. ### Representations Highways Division have opposed the application on the following grounds:- The development will remove all off street parking from the site. The Authority has received no privately written representations objecting to the application. ### Assessment / Recommendation The Highway Division have objected to the application on the grounds that the proposal would result in an off street parking provision. However, the parking space is only 4.5 metres in length which is short of the required 4.8 metres. Additionally, if a vehicle where to park in the space, the vehicle would possibly overhang the public pavement. Also, as the garage doors are not an “up and over” door design, but doors which open inwards, it would not be possible to close the doors if a car was parked in this space. Overall, it is consider that the scheme would not result a significant loss of off street parking of the site, particularly as the site is within Ramsey Town Centre and therefore close to a number of car parks, on-street parking and a few minutes walk from the Ramsey Bus Station which has links throughout the Island. For these reasons the proposal would be appropriate in this location and therefore the application is recommended is for an approval. ### Party Status It is considered that the following meet the criteria of Government Circular 1/06 and should be afforded interested party status: #### Ramsey Commissioners Highways Division ### Recommendation **Recommended Decision:** Permitted **Date of Recommendation:** 16.05.2008 ### 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 conversion of the garage to a store as proposed in the submitted documents and drawings 00692/1, 00692/2, 0001, 1001 REV A, 1101 REV A and 0101 all received on 2nd April 2008. I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular No 44/05 (Delegation of Functions to Director of Planning and Building Control) Decision Made : Permitted Date: 10/6/08 Signed: 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/85406-lezayre-lloyds-tsb-bank-conversion-garage/documents/1525755*