**Document:** Officer Planning Report
**Application:** 08/01209/B — Installation of a solar panel
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2008-08-11
**Parish:** Malew
**Document Type:** report / officer_report
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/86001-malew-19-victoria-road-solar-panels/documents/1529504

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# Officer Planning Report

**Application No.:** ** 08/01209/B **
**Applicant:** ** Mr Paul Ellis **
**Proposal:** ** Installation of a solar panel **
**Site Address:** ** 19 Victoria Road, Castletown, Isle Of Man, IM9 1EN ### Considerations **Case Officer:** Miss S E Corlett **
**Photo Taken:** ** - **
**Site Visit:** ** - **
**Expected Decision Level:** ** - Delegation ### Written Representations ### Consultations **Consultee:** Highways Division **Notes:** **Consultee:** Castletown Commissioners **Notes:**

### Officer's Report

#### The Site

The site represents the curtilage of an existing dwelling situated on the north western side of Victoria Road. The property is a semi-detached three storey Victorian property with its original sliding sash windows including a round-headed dormer windows on the second floor of the front elevation and curved headed windows on the first floor and flat headed windows on the ground floor with a two storey bay to the left of the front door. The property is one of a terrace of three with the other two properties projecting further forward that the application building. The property has a pitched slated roof and a chimney on each end of the roof.

#### Planning Status

The site lies within an area designated on the Castletown Local Plan of 1991 and the draft Area Plan of 2001 as Residential and within Castletown's Conservation Area.

#### Planning History

Planning permission was granted for alterations, erection of extensions and a detached garage and access under PA 08/0961.

#### The Proposal

Proposed now is the installation of a solar panel. This will be 1.4m by 4m fitted to the front pitch of the roof. No depth of the panel is given - the illustration shows a panel 97mm thick and the photograph shows a slim panel.

## Representations

There are no representations on the file.

### Assessment

The panel will be visible from the public highway but its slim profile will result in a limited impact, the environmental benefit of which will outweigh any visual impact. The property has a projecting bay which will partially screen the view of the panel.

### 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: 04.08.2008

### 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 permission relates to the installation of a solar panel as shown and described in the information received on 23rd June, 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 :
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/86001-malew-19-victoria-road-solar-panels/documents/1529504*