**Document:** Planning Report and Recommendations
**Application:** 03/01393/B — Erection of a block of sixteen apartments with lower ground floor parking accessed from Esplanade Lane
**Decision:** Refused
**Decision Date:** 2004-02-20
**Parish:** Braddan
**Document Type:** report / officer_report
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/74047-braddan-vacant-site-34-apartment/documents/1571660

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# Planning Report and Recommendations

Planning Report and Recommendations General Report Site Visited YES/NO 1. The site comprises an area some 22 m square having frontages to both Esplanade Lane and to Castle Mona Avenue. 2. Pred. Residential on the Douglas Local Plan. Not within, but next to, the Conservation Area. 3. Proposed, in a full application, is residential dev't in the form of a 5-storey building accommodating 16 flats and 19 parking spaces. From C. Mona Ave., this would appear as a 3-storey building having accommodation in the roof space. 4. In general, we have been encouraging and approving redev't for res. use in Esplanade Lane. Summary of objections/views HA - conditional approval. Drainage Authority - objection (no details) Water Authority - objection (supply) DAO - apartment blocks standards SPMCE - concern re parking provision Recommendations EH - consult re Registration FPO - consult re 196 Rigs Signed Date ## Application No: 03/1393 Page 2 of ### Planning Report and Recommendations #### General Report **Site Visited:** YES/NO 1. **The site-specific issues are, / suggest. -** - (a) Parking Provision - (b) Access - (c) Environment - (d) Architecture / Streetscapes - (e) Neighbours - (f) Water Supply - (g) Drainage 2. **Parking** - 10 spaces for 16 flats (14 2-bed and 2 6-bed). Within walking distance of the Town Centre. Accepted by the H.A. 3. **Access** - From Esplanade Lane only. Signed - The carriageways are bright but - The carrageways are bright but - Date #### Summary of objections/views #### Recommendations **Approve/Refuse** **Signed** **Date** Signed Date 19.11.03 Summary of objections/views [Table omitted in markdown export] [Table omitted in markdown export] Planning Report and Recommendations General Report Site Visited YES/NO so tight as to discourage overspill parking or waiting. Manoeving may be difficult. The emergency services oppose further traffic along C. Mona Avenue. B. Environment The outlook from the site is limited, at least at lower levels, and, in the case of Esplanade Lane, poor. However, having regard to the recent designation of The Promenades Conservation Area as such, and to the general redev't of the Lane for residential purposes, and to the proximity of the Promenade and the sea, I suggest that the environment of the proposed flats would be acceptable. Signed Date 19-11-03 Summary of objections/views Recommendations Approve/Refuse Signed Date ## Application No: 03/1393 Page 5 of ### Planning Report and Recommendations #### General Report **Site Visited** **YES/NO** 1. **Water Supply** The Water Authority has opposed the **debt on supply grounds**. 2. **Drainage** The Corporation, as agents for the **DOT**, seeks more detail. 3. **I will write to the architect about (11) and (12), and to No. 34 about (10)** **Signature** **Signature** **Date** **19/11/03** **Signed** **Date** ### Summary of objections/views #### Recommendations **Approve/Refuse** **No response from No. 34.** The drainage into has been supplied, but I don't have a final response from the D.C. I suggest approval subject to a "Gramplan" condition in respect of the water supply, but it would be judged to be **Signed** **Overdebt** **Date** **19/1/04**

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