Decision Notice

Savage & Chadwick Armitage House Lord Street Douglas Isle Of Man IM1 1LE

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 The Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure)(No 2) Order 2013

In pursuance of powers granted under the above Act and Order the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture determined to APPROVE an application by Douglas Borough Council, Ref 16/00775/B, for the Erection of forty one sheltered apartments, ancillary features, associated parking and police office provision at Willaston Police Station Site Snaefell Road Douglas Isle Of Man subject to compliance with the following condition(s) and notes (if any) :

• 1. The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.

Reason: To comply with article 14 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No2) Order 2013 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.

• 2. The development hereby approved shall not be occupied or operated until the parking and turning areas have been provided in accordance with the approved plans. Such areas shall not be used for any purpose other than the parking and turning of vehicles associated with the development and shall remain free of obstruction for such use at all times.

Reason: To ensure that sufficient provision is made for off-street parking and turning of vehicles in the interests of highway safety.

• 3. No development shall take place until full details of soft landscaping works have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Department and these works shall be carried out as approved. Details of the soft landscaping works include planting to the roadside boundary, the communal garden area, landscaping to either gable ends of shops opposite site and mitigation tree planting. All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development or the occupation of the hereby approved sheltered apartments, whichever is the sooner. Any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed, or become seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species. Reason: To ensure the provision of an appropriate landscape setting to the development.

• 4. The visibility splay(s) identified on drawing SC1411/P/10-01 shall be constructed in accordance with the approved plans and thereafter kept permanently clear of any obstruction exceeding 1050 mm in height above adjoining carriageway level. Reason: In the interests of highway safety.
• 5. All pruning carried out to facilitate development shall be carried out so as to conform to British Standard 3998:2010 (Tree Work - Recommendations). This consent does not authorise any pollarding or topping or any reduction in the height of any retained tree. This consent does not authorise any pruning which is not absolutely necessary to facilitate the Development.

Reason: To safeguard the areas to be landscaped and the existing trees and planting to be retained within the site.

• 6. The protection measures and construction methods detailed in the Tree Survey and Report prepared by Manx Roots Tree Management submitted in support of the application shall be adhered to in full, subject to the pre-arranged supervision detailed in paragraph 10 and appendix 5, by a suitably qualified and pre-appointed tree specialist. No retained tree shall be cut down, uprooted, or wilfully destroyed during the development phase and thereafter within 5 years from the completion date, other than in accordance with the approved plans and particulars or as may be permitted by prior approval in writing from the Department. This condition may only be fully discharged on completion of the development subject to satisfactory written evidence of contemporaneous supervision and monitoring of the tree protection throughout construction by a suitably qualified and pre-appointed tree specialist.

Reason: To safeguard the areas to be landscaped and the existing trees and planting to be retained within the site.

• 7. Mitigation planting and post planting maintenance shall be carried out in accordance with appendix 7 of the Tree Survey and Report prepared by Manx Roots Tree Management submitted in support of the application. Evidence that post planting maintenance and management has been undertaken shall be submitted to the Planning Authority at the end the first three growing seasons following implementation, on the template recommended in the report.

Reason: To safeguard the areas to be landscaped and the existing trees and planting to be retained within the site.

This approval relates to drawings reference numbers SC1411/P/10-00, SC1411/P/10-01, SC1411/P/10-02, SC1411/P/10-03, SC1411/P/11-01, SC1411/P/12-01, SC1411/P/12-02, "BS5837:2012 TREE SURVEY AND REPORT" DATED 25TH MAY 2016 and Updated 10th October, DWG 1 REV 1, DWG 1 REV 2 (phase 1), DWG 1 REV 2 (phase 2), PL/02, DWG 01 REV B, DWG 02 REV B and DWG 03 REV B all received on 7th July 2016.

Date of Issue: 1st November 2016

Interim Director of Planning and Building Control

Guidance Note

This decision was made by the Planning Committee in accordance with the authority delegated to it in the name of the Minister and/or in the name and on behalf of the Department.

This permission refers only to that required under the The Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure)(No 2) Order 2013.

Any appeal against this decision must be in accordance with the criteria set down in that instrument.

Specifically, a valid appeal must be in writing, signed by the appellant, and submitted to the Department within 21 days of the date of this Notice. To further validate the appeal it must contain:

•  Payment of a planning appeal fee as prescribed in the Town and Country Planning (Application and Appeal Fees) (No2) Order 2015 (currently £170);
•  The reasons for making the appeal; and
•  An election to have the appeal conducted by means of an inquiry (a hearing) or by means of written representation.

An appeal form and guidance notes are available from either Planning & Building Control, Tel 685950, or to download from the Department’s website https://www.gov.im/categories/planning-and-building-control/planningapplications/planning-appeals/how-to-appeal/

The proposed development must not be commenced until either;

•  The time for requesting an appeal has expired; or
•  Any appeal has been determined;

Whichever is the later.

If no appeal is lodged within 21 days of the date of issue overleaf, and this decision becomes final, the Department’s public reference copy (counter copy) of the planning application may be collected by the applicant or their agent from Murray House.

A copy of the Officer’s report and any correspondence which led to the assessment and decision is now available to view on the Government’s website (via Online Services) or at the Department’s offices Murray House, Mount Havelock, Douglas.

https://www.gov.im/planningapplication/services/planning/search.iom

Please note that if the counter copy of the application is not collected within THIRTY DAYS following the last date on which a planning appeal can be made it will be destroyed without further notice.