**Document:** Planning Permission 03/01429/C Notice
**Application:** 10/00194/B — Creation of a car parking area together with access roadway, footpaths and associated lighting
**Decision:** Permitted
**Decision Date:** 2010-04-30
**Parish:** Braddan
**Document Type:** decision / decision_notice
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/35856-braddan-the-nunnery/documents/1573550

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# Planning Permission 03/01429/C Notice

## 2 Planning Permission (03/01429/C)

## Isle of Man Planning Scheme (Development Plan) Order 1982

Dalrymple Associates
Court Row Chambers
Ramsey
IM8 1JS
In pursuance of powers granted under the above Acts and Order the Department of Local Government and the Environment does hereby APPROVE the application made by you on behalf of: Isle Of Man Business School

Proposal: Change of use of Nunnery Estate to permanent use as a Business School and uses incidental to, including additional car parking, teaching facilities and associated residential accommodation indicated within master plan
at: $\quad$ The Nunnery
Old Castletown Road
Douglas
IM2 1QB
which was considered on 9 January 2004, subject to compliance with the conditions specified on the attached schedule.

Date of Issue: 16.9 January, 2004
Murray House
Mount Havelock
Douglas
Isle of Man

Note 1: This permission refers only to that required under the Town and Country Planning Acts and does not include any consent or approval under any other enactment, bylaw, order or regulation.

Note 2: No works may be commenced until such time as -

- the time for requesting a review of the initial decision has expired; or
- any review of the initial decision has been completed; or
- the time for requesting an appeal in relation to the decision has expired; or
- any appeal has been completed.

Note 3: Rights of the review of the decision are attached.

## Schedule Of Conditions

### Application Ref No: 03/01429/C

1. This approval relates to the use of the site (as defined on drawing number 324-03, date stamped 9th October 2003) for educational purposes in the form of an International Business School, in general terms in accordance with the submitted Master Plan; however, no approval is granted or implied to the individual building or engineering projects identified on that Plan; these projects are subject to the constraints identified in subsequent conditions of this notice; each project should form the subject of a separate planning application.
2. The Nunnery Estate as a whole has considerable value and interest as a complete ecological system; accordingly, prior to the submission of any detailed applications for building or engineering operations, there must be undertaken an assessment of the ecological value of the whole site; the brief therefor should be prepared in consultation with the Wildlife Office of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; particular regard should be had to the consequences of division and loss of particular habitats, since these can affect the continued ability of an area to provide a viable habitat for specific elements of wildlife; a copy of the assessment must accompany each detailed application.
3. Area 2:

Use of this Area for car-parking, as proposed, should not, if possible, involve the removal of above-ground walling or the reduction of existing ground levels; should such a reduction be judged essential, archaeological investigation and recording must first take place.
4. Area 5:

Any conversion must be designed such as to minimise alteration of the structures and their fabric; careful investigation and recording according to sound building conservation principles must take place prior to designing any conversion; these buildings are likely to include elements of earlier religious buildings, and/or to have been constructed from building materials quarried from the nunnery buildings following the Dissolution.
5. Area 6:

This area impinges on the site of the old mansion house and also the nunnery itself, and may not be acceptable for development as proposed; prior to a decision in this respect, there must be further archaeological investigation, to a specification prepared by Manx National Heritage.
6. Areas 2.2 and 7 :

Prior to the design of any development of these areas, there must be investigation of both the archaeological and ecological interest of these areas, which were once part of the formal gardens associated with the present mansion house, and which also contribute to the ecological interest of the adjoining woodland areas.
7. No trees may be felled as part of any proposed building or engineering operations; applications for such operations must include details of measures to protect trees during construction works; all service trenches must be shown on the submitted plans.

Note: All trees are Registered.

8. No approval is hereby implied to the route of the proposed cycle-way insofar as it lies outside of the defined site.
9. All applications for building or engineering operations must include details of how surface-water run-off from roofs and paved areas would be disposed of, and of how any foul sewage would be disposed of.

NOTE The applicant's attention is drawn to the recommendations of the Disability Access Officer, a copy of whose report is attached to this notice.

NOTE Consideration is being given to the Registration of the buildings and monuments within the Nunnery Estate.

NOTE The Water Authority advises that, at this time, it may not be possible to provide additional supplies of fresh, potable water to the site.

NOTE Any archaeological surveys or other assessments required by the above conditions must be undertaken at the expense of the applicant/developer.

This decision was made by the Planning Committee constituted in accordance with Paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 of the Isle of Man Planning Scheme (Development Plan) Order 1982.

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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/35856-braddan-the-nunnery/documents/1573550*