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e developed for public enjoyment. However, in order to finance this, provision would have to be made for an element of enabling residential development.

Inspector's Conclusions

459 Paragraph 5.11.1 of the draft Area Plan records that Wildlife Sites are designated by the Manx Wildlife Trust, with the support of DEFA. As I understand matters, the Tromode Dam Wildlife site has already been designated. Map 1a of the draft Area Plan simply records this, to show where one of the restrictions on development, set out in Environment Policy 4 of the Strategic Plan, will apply. I have seen no technical evidence to indicate that this designation is unwarranted.

460 Although land at Castleward Farm was allocated for recreational, leisure and tourism development in the Braddan Local Plan in 1991, no such development seems to have taken place in the ensuing 28 years. I understand that there would be little prospect of it taking place in future, in the absence of enabling residential development. However, the Strategic Plan indicates that new residential development will be permitted in the countryside only in specified exceptional circumstances, none of which would apply in the present case. In the circumstances, I am not satisfied that there is a case for allocating any part of Castleward Farm for housing, or for development for the purposes of recreation, leisure or tourism, contrary to Strategic Plan policy. That includes the land which is no longer reserved for DHSS requirements. Accordingly, I recommend that no action be taken in response to this objection.

Late Site 3 between Braaid Hall and Braaid Cottage, Braaid

461 This site, which measures about 0.06ha, consists of one of four plots which formerly formed part of Braaid Farm. In the 1970s it was granted planning approval for residential development, but this was not taken up. However, the plots on either side have now been developed. The plot to the west is now occupied by the Braaid Young Men's Club Hall. The plot to the east has now been incorporated into the garden of Braaid Cottage, and contains a domestic garage. Late Site 3 is not allocated for development in the draft Area Plan.

462 The owner of this site objected that it was inequitable that this site should not be allocated for residential development. He referred particularly to Section 8.8 of the Strategic Plan, which deals with the potential for additions to be made to existing groups of houses in the countryside. I deal with that matter in paragraphs 237 to 240 above.

463 Braaid is a small cluster of dwellings and other buildings, grouped around a crossroads in a rural area. It is not one of the listed settlements in Spatial Policies 2 to 4 or Appendix 3 of the Strategic Plan. Strategic Policy 2 of the Strategic Plan states that new development will be located primarily within existing settlements, or in sustainable urban extensions to those settlements; and that development in the countryside will be permitted only in specified exceptional circumstances, none of which apply in the present case. Spatial Policy 5 and