**Document:** Officer Report Recommendation 08/02160/B **Application:** 08/02160/B — Erection of a dwelling including garaging, ancillary accommodation and landscaping **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2009-02-20 **Parish:** Braddan **Document Type:** report / officer_report **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/86571-braddan-plot-2-ballanard-new-build-dwelling/documents/1534935 --- # Officer Report Recommendation 08/02160/B number of properties in the vicinity and as a result it will not not adversely affect the amenity of local residents or the character of the locality. The proposed dwelling sits comfortably within the application site of just over 1 acre and therefore accords with the second criteria of Planning Circular 8/89. The driveway and courtyard provides satisfactory amenity standards in itself, including adequate parking, servicing, manoeuvring space; and safe and convenient access for all highway users in accordance with the Strategic Plan. The dwelling incorporates where possible existing topography and landscape features, to provide a large garden, without removing the mature trees contained within the site. At the same time due to the topography of the site, the existing trees and proposed boundary wall would limit any public views of the proposed dwelling. The garage block would border the eastern boundary of the site and project 1.9m over the boundary wall which is a concern. But after a site visit to the area it was viewed that there is a number of outbuildings and properties a long the Ballanard Road which would be similar to the proposed garage block and with the existing boundary treatment a long the application site it is regarded that this is sufficient to protect the visual amenities of local residents. ### Recommendation For these reasons the proposed dwelling would seem appropriate in this location and comply with the relevant planning policies and therefore my recommendation 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: Douglas Corporation The Department of Transport Highways Division ### Recommendation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 29.01.2009 ### 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 erection of a dwelling including garaging, ancillary accommodation and landscaping as shown in drawings 2328-P2-001, 2328-P2-002, 2328-P2-008, 2328-P2-009, 2328-P2-010, 2328-P2-011, 2328-P2-012, 2328-P2-014, 2328-P2-015, 2328-P2-016, 2328-P2-017, 2328-P2-018, 2328-P2-019 and Design Statement date stamped 20th November 2008. ### C 3. No development shall take place until samples of the facing, roofing and paving materials to be used shall have been submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority and these works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. ### C 4. No development shall take place until full details of both hard landscaping works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority and those works shall be carried out as approved. Details of hard landscaping works shall include boundary treatment, including full details of the precise location and extent of the boundary treatment; footpaths; and hard surfacing materials. The hard landscaping works shall be completed in full accordance with the approved details within 3 months of the first occupation of the dwellings hereby permitted. ### C 5. All planting shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans within the first planting and seeding seasons following that first occupation. Any tree or shrub which within a period of 5 years from the completion of development dies, is removed or becomes seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with another of similar size and species, unless the planning authority gives written consent to any variation. ### C 6. The dwelling hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the vehicular means of access has been constructed in accordance with the approved plans and until the section of road up to the site has been constructed under planning permission 07/01917/B. Those means of access shall thereafter be kept available at all times for their respective purpose. ### C 7. The dwelling hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the car parking and manoeuvring areas have been provided in accordance with the approved plans, and those areas shall thereafter be kept available at all times for their respective purposes. ### C 8. No existing tree or shrub indicated on the approved plans to be retained shall be cut down, grubbed out, topped, lopped, or uprooted without the written consent of the Planning Authority. Any such tree or shrub removed without such consent or dying, becoming seriously damaged or diseased within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development shall be replaced in the next planting season with another of similar size and species, unless the planning authority gives written consent to any variation. ### C 9. No development or other operation shall be commenced on this site until adequate steps, which shall have been previously approved in writing by the Planning Authority, have been taken to safeguard against damage or injury during construction works of all trees on the site, or those trees whose root structure may extend within the site. In particular no excavations, site works, trenches or channels shall be cut or pipes or services laid or any other works carried out in such a way as to cause damage or injury to the trees by interference with their root structure and no soil or waste shall be deposited on the land in such a position as to be likely to cause damage or injury to the trees. ### C 10. The additional living accommodation above the garages shall only be ancillary accommodation to the main dwellinghouse and at no time shall form a separate dwellinghouse. I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular No 56/08 (Delegation of Functions to the Acting Senior Planning Officer), GC 55/08 for Advertisements and 69/08 for Registered Buildings. Decision Made : Permitted Date : 19/2/09 Signed : DB Acting Senior Planning Officer --- *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/86571-braddan-plot-2-ballanard-new-build-dwelling/documents/1534935*