14 November 2011 · Committee
5, Bank Street, Castletown, Isle Of Man, IM9 1ad
This retrospective application sought permission to add commercial office use to 5 Bank Street, Castletown, a three-storey terraced property that already contained a small shop at the front of the ground floor and was otherwise used as a single residential dwelling. The application asked for the building to be formally recognised as having a mixed use: residential and commercial offices, in addition to the existing retail element. The use had already taken place before permission was sought, making this a retrospective application. The Planning Committee approved the application on 14 November 2011, subject to one condition.
The Planning Committee of the Department of Infrastructure approved the application. The retrospective change of use allowed the property to operate as both a residential dwelling and commercial offices, in addition to the existing small shop on the ground floor.
New office floor space should be located within town and village centres
Business Policy 7: New office floor space should be located within town and village centres on land which is zoned for the purpose on the appropriate area plan; exceptionally, permission may be given for new office space (a) on approved Business Parks for Corporate Headquarters which do not involve day to day callers; or (b) in buildings of acknowledged architectural or historic interest for which office use represents the only or most appropriate practicable and economic way of securing future use, renovation and maintenance.
Use of the upper floors of existing retail premises for residential or office use will be encouraged. The conversion from residential use to office use will however be discouraged.
Castletown Local Plan Order 1990
2.12 The Louisa Mine Site is not visually an integral part of the village: rather it forms part of the wider periphery or backdrop to the village and in this respect it is suggested that the site is not suitable in its entirety for the development of built structures. This has significant repercussions for the viability of any reclamation works which themselves are likely to be costly. There may be the opportunity, however, to develop the westernmost part of the site for housing as tests undertaken subsequent to the Wolverhampton Study have revealed that the level of contamination in this part may not be so high as to preclude such development and after use (see Section 3).
Condition 1
This approval relates to the additional use from residential to residential and commercial offices (Retrospective) as proposed in the submitted documents and drawings 74.4.1, 74.4.2, 74.4.3, 74.4.4, 74.4.5, 74.4.7 and 74.4.8 all received on 20th September 2011.
