**Document:** COR Applicants Correspondence **Application:** 20/00770/C — Use of summer house within garden as gym for one to one exercise classes (retrospective) **Decision:** Permitted **Decision Date:** 2020-11-06 **Parish:** Lonan **Document Type:** other / correspondence **Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/13296-baldrine-stoneycroft-dwelling/documents/999031 --- # COR Applicants Correspondence From: Christine Barker Sent: 23 April 2021 08:59 To: CO, Planning Appeals Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links. Good morning Andrew Please find statement from Andy and Karen Young from ‘Garwick’ as they can’t attend on Tuesday, I believe Linda and Chris Carter from ‘Green Oaks’ will email you directly Kind regards Christine --- Forwarded message --- From: Redacted Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 08:25 Subject: Redacted To: Redacted Hi, unfortunately we are unable to attend the rearranged meeting. As immediate neighbours we would like to state that Christine's business has had no impact on our day to day life. There has been no problem with noise and we have had no issues with cars parking in the street, even though Clay Head Close has very limited parking. We also are aware that a number of Christine's clients are in fact local residents, including my wife, so don't actually drive to here anyway. In these modern times where fitness and wellbeing is being constantly promoted, we have found it strange that there seems to have been a concerted effort to block Christine's business from one or two local residents and from local officials. We are aware that a number of residents were canvassed to oppose the plans without, to our best knowledge, much success. Surprisingly though, we were never approached. Redacted Garwick, Clay Head Close Johnstone, Andy (CSO) From: Linda Carter Sent: 22 April 2021 19:20 To: CO, Planning Appeals Cc: Mr Chris Carter Subject: Appeal regarding Planning Application 20/00770C Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links. For the attention of Mr Andrew Johnstone Planning Appeals 22nd April, 2021 Dear Mr Johnstone Appeal regarding Planning Application - Stoneycroft, Clay Head Close, Baldrine, IM4 6DW Planning Ref Number 20/00770C At the beginning of August 2020 we received an anonymous letter stating that an application to the Planning Authority for a “commercial gym” had been submitted for the above address. It pointed out that this could substantially increase traffic along Clay Head Road. On 4th August we submitted a letter to Garff Commissioners and the Planning and Building Control Directorate to object to this planning application as we were concerned that a “commercial gym” would increase traffic along the road which is a single track lane. Afterwards, we learned from Christine Barker that the application referred to is for a modest sized wooden summerhouse, and that the activity would be limited to one-to-one personal training, of five sessions per day. Because of this more accurate information, we feel that the increase in traffic along Clay Head Road would be minimal, and so we withdrew our objection on 7th August, 2020. Shortly after that we received another anonymous letter which asserted that we were in error to withdraw our objection. This seemed to us to be bordering on domineering and controlling. A modest sized wooden summerhouse is a far cry from what is conjured up in one’s mind regarding a “commercial gym”. We regret not investigating this more fully at the time, as if we had we would never have objected in the first place. Yours sincerely Chris and Linda Carter Green Oak Clay Head Road Baldrine --- *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/13296-baldrine-stoneycroft-dwelling/documents/999031*