**Document:** Planning Approval Decision Notice
**Application:** 13/91279/A — Approval in principle to convert former gate keeper's cottage to residential use, including creation of off road parking and bio disc sewage treatment system
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2014-04-29
**Parish:** Rushen
**Document Type:** decision / decision_notice
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/5076-colby-former-ballagawne-gate-conversion/documents/1548947

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# Planning Approval Decision Notice

## Cabinet Office

**Isle of Man**
Government Office, 11th Floor

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Government Office
DOUGLAS
Isle of Man IM1 3PN
Direct Line (01624) 685280
Fax Number (01624) 685710
Email planning appeals@gov.im
**CHIEF SECRETARY**
Will Greenhow ACMA

Our Reference: DF13/0040

Planning Secretary
Department Of Infrastructure
Murray House, Mount Havelock
Douglas

Dear Sir/Madam,

### Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No2) Order 2013

**PA Ref:** 13/91279/A
**Applicant:** Department Of Community, Culture And Leisure
**Proposal:** Approval in principle to convert former gate keeper's cottage to residential use, including creation of off road parking and bio disc sewage treatment system
**Address:** Former Ballagawne Gate Keeper's Cottage, Mount Gawne Road, Colby, Isle Of Man

I refer to the abovementioned planning application.

In accordance with the Article 9 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No 2) Order 2013, I herewith give notice of the decision as follows.

The application has been approved subject to the following condition(s):

1. This approval in principle relates to the conversion of former gatekeeper's cottage to residential use, including creation of off road parking and bio disc sewage treatment system, Former Ballagawne Gate Keeper's Cottage, Mount Gawne Road, Colby, Rushen, as shown generally in drawings 01, 02 and 03 all date stamped 30th October 2013.

2. The development hereby approved shall be begun either before the expiration of four years from the date of this approval or before the expiration of two years from the date of approval of the last of the reserved matters.

3. Application for approval of the reserved matters shall be made to the Planning Authority before the expiration of two years from the date of this approval and thereafter the development shall only be carried out in accordance with the details as approved.

4. Details of the siting, design, external appearance, internal layout, means of access and landscaping to the extent not already determined (hereinafter called the "reserved matters") shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority before any development is commenced and thereafter the development shall only be carried out in accordance with the details as approved.
5. The details to be submitted in accordance with Condition 4 shall include planting to be provided along the realigned and extended bank.
6. The development hereby approved shall not be occupied until the parking area has been provided in accordance with the approved plans. The area shall not be used for any purpose other than the parking and manoeuvring of vehicles associated with the development and shall remain free of obstruction for such use at all times.

In accordance with article 10(c) of the Order, please be advised that the decision of the Council of Ministers is binding and final (subject to the possibility of judicial review by petition of doleance)

The Planning Inspector's report, upon which the decision was determined, may be viewed by visiting http://www.gov.im/categories/planning-and-building-control/planning-developmentcontrol/department-applications/departmental-applications-decisions/ or by contacting the office of the Chief Secretary for a hardcopy (Tel 685204).

Yours faithfully,

A Johnstone
Planning Appeals Administrator

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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/5076-colby-former-ballagawne-gate-conversion/documents/1548947*