Officer Report

Application No.: 17/01286/D Applicant: TS Keggen & Son Ltd Proposal: Installation of non-illuminated signage Site Address: Shop Orchard Street Port Erin Isle of Man IM9 6AJ Case Officer : Miss S E Corlett Photo Taken: 16.01.2018 Site Visit: 16.01.2018 Expected Decision Level: Planning Committee Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 22.01.2018 _________________________________________________________________

Conditions and Notes for Approval

C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions C 1. The advertisement(s) hereby granted consent shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice. Reason: To avoid the accumulation of unimplemented advertisement consents. Plans/Drawings/Information: This decision relates to drawing 1 and the location plan both received on 13th December, 2017. _______________________________________________________________ Interested Person Status – Additional Persons none _____________________________________________________________________________

Officer’s Report

THIS APPLICATION IS REFERRED TO THE PLANNING COMMITTEE AS THE PROPOSAL FOR THE USE WHICH GENERATES THE NEED FOR THE SIGNAGE IS ALSO SO REFERRED

THE SITE

1.1 The site is a pharmacy situated on Orchard Road which links Church Road and Station Road in the commercial heart of Port Erin. The building is a flat roofed single storey building with a shopfront facing onto Orchard Road and a vehicular and pedestrian entrance onto the

• lane at the side. This lane proceeds west from Orchard Road and turns through 90 degrees to exit onto Church Road between the Post Office and another pharmacy.
• 1.2 Planning approval is concurrently being sought for the conversion of the pharmacy into a funeral director's premises (17/01252/B). THE PROPOSAL

2.1 Proposed is the display of advertisements announcing the premises as a funeral director's on the frontage facing Orchard Road. This will take the form of a plastic block with white lettering announcing "T.S.KEGGEN & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS" with vinyls on the ground floor shop windows obscuring the view into the building and providing contact information on one window and the words "PRIVATE CHAPEL OF REST" on the other, both beneath a small decorative pattern. PLANNING POLICY - 3.1 The site lies within an area designated on the Area Plan for the South as Mixed Use and just outside the proposed Conservation Area which has not been progressed since the adoption of the Plan.

3.2 The Strategic Plan provides advice about advertisements, supplementing the provisions in the Town and Country Planning Act 1999 which allow the Department to control the display of advertisements "so far as it appears to that Department to be expedient in the interest of amenity or public safety". - 3.3 General Policy 6: "Within our towns and villages, the display of external advertisements will be permitted on the site or building to which they relate provided they:

• (a) are of a high standard of design and materials and relate well to the building and site on which they are to be displayed;
• (b) are in keeping with and do not detract from the surrounding area; and
• (c) are located so as not to cause a highway safety hazard."

PLANNING HISTORY

4.1 The site has been the subject of a number of previous applications including changes to and from retail, office accommodation and an estate agent's office, all approved. REPRESENTATIONS - 5.1 Highway Services indicate that there is no highway interest in the application (12.01.18).

5.2 Port Erin Commissioners support the application (11.01.18). ASSESSMENT - 6.1 The issue here is whether the signage would have any adverse impact on the character and appearance of the area. As there is to be no illumination there is unlikely to be any adverse impact on the living conditions of those who may inhabit properties in the area, particularly the apartments above the Station Hotel, opposite.

6.2 The signage is subtle and appropriate to the proposed use of the building and not dissimilar to what exists. The vinyls are also appropriate and none of the proposed elements will adversely affect the character or appearance of the area. CONCLUSION - 7.1 The application is supported. INTERESTED PERSON STATUS

By virtue of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 2013, the following persons are automatically interested persons:

• (a) The applicant, or if there is one, the applicant's agent;
• (b) The owner and the occupier of any land that is the subject of the application or any other person in whose interest the land becomes vested;
• (c) Persons to whom notice has been given under regulation 10(3)(a)(i)
• (d) Any Government Department that has made written submissions relating to planning considerations with respect to the application that the Department considers material;
• (e) The Highways Division of the Department of Infrastructure;
• (f) The Ports Division of the Department of Infrastructure;
• (g) The operator of the railway or tramway; and
• (h) The local authority in whose district the land the subject of the application is situated. _____________________________________________________________________

I confirm that this decision has been made by the Planning Committee in accordance with the authority afforded to it under the appropriate delegated authority.

Decision Made : …Permitted.. Committee Meeting Date:…29.01.2018 Signed :…………………………………….. Presenting Officer Further to the decision of the Committee an additional report/condition reason was required

YES/NO

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