DEC Officer Report

Application No.: 19/00318/B Applicant: Isle Of Man Development Co Ltd Proposal: Alterations, enlargement of windows, replacement of existing windows, removal of existing annex and creation of door canopy. Site Address: 1 Cooil Road Braddan Isle of Man IM4 2AF Planning Officer: Mr Paul Visigah Photo Taken: 25.04.2019 Site Visit: 25.04.2019 Expected Decision Level: Officer Delegation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 08.05.2019 _________________________________________________________________

Conditions and Notes for Approval

C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions C 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.

Plans/Drawings/Information:

This approval relates to drawing numbers 945-001 (Site Location Plan), 945-002 (Site Plan as Proposed), 945-003 (Plans & Elevations as Existing), and 945-004 (Plans & Elevations as Proposed) date stamped as having been received 19.03.19.

_______________________________________________________________ Interested Person Status – Additional Persons NONE _____________________________________________________________________________ Officer’s Report THE SITE

1.1 The site represents the curtilage of existing offices situated at No.1 Cooil Road, Braddan. The building is a two-storey building situated within an industrial area. - 1.2 There is an annex situated at the rear end of the office building which previously served as a toilet, extending from the filling room.

THE PROPOSAL

2.1 The application seeks approval for the removal of an existing ground floor annex attached to office and the creation of a door canopy, the alteration, enlargement of windows, as well as the replacement of existing windows on the rear end of the building. PLANNING HISTORY - 3.1 The application site has been the subject of a single previous planning application which is considered relevant to the assessment of this current planning application.

Reference Number: 92/00061/B Status: Permitted Proposal: Alteration and extension to office accommodation, 1 Cooil Road, Braddan.

PLANNING POLICY

4.1 In terms of local plan policy, the application site is within an area recognised as being within predominantly industrial use under the Braddan Parish District Local Plan (South) 3, 1991.

Additionally, the Planning Circular 6/91, the written statement that accompanies the local plan, is considered to be specifically material to the assessment of this current planning application. Policy 3.3 allows the conversion of existing structures in preference to new ones.

• 4.2. In terms of strategic plan policy, the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016 contains one policy that is considered specifically material to the assessment of this current planning application. General Policy 2 as contained in section 6.2 states that: "Development which is in accordance with the land-use zoning and proposals in the appropriate Area Plan and with other policies of this Strategic Plan will normally be permitted, provided that the development:

• (b) respects the site and surroundings in terms of the siting, layout, scale, form, design and landscaping of buildings and the spaces around them;
• (c) does not affect adversely the character of the surrounding landscape or townscape; (g) does not affect adversely the amenity of local residents or the character of the locality;

• (j) can be provided with all necessary services;
• (k) does not prejudice the use or development of adjoining land in accordance with the appropriate Area Plan;

REPRESENTATIONS Copies of representations received can be viewed on the government's website. This report contains summaries only.

5.1 Representation from the Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Highways Division confirms that there is no highways interest in the letter dated 11 April 2019.

5.2 Senior Forester has not commented on this application at the time of drafting this report, and so it is assumed that there are no objections to the application.

5.3 Manx Utilities Authority No response has been received by deadline for comments (26.04.2019). It is, therefore, assumed that there is no comment on the application. - 5.4 Braddan Parish Commissioners confirms that there is no objection to the planning application in the letter dated 11 April 2019.

ASSESSMENT

6.1 The key elements proposed by the planning application are considered to be relatively minor and unobjectionable. The proposed door canopy, the enlargement of windows, as well as the replacement of existing windows do not create adverse effects on public amenity,

private amenity, highway safety or any other obvious material planning consideration. As such, the proposal is concluded to accord with the provisions of General Policy 2 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016. Hence, the proposed development which is intended to improve functionality within the office area is welcomed.

RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the planning application be approved.

INTERESTED PERSON STATUS

8.1 By virtue of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No.2) Order 2013 Article 6(4); 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) Any Government Department that has made written submissions relating to planning considerations with respect to the application that the Department considers material, in this case Department of Infrastructure Highway Services and
• (d) Highway Services Division of Department of Infrastructure and
• (e) The local authority in whose district the land, the subject of the application is situated.

8.2 The decision maker must determine:

• o whether any other comments from Government Departments (other than the Department of Infrastructure Highway Services Division) are material; and
• o Whether there are other persons to those listed in Article 6(4) who should be given Interested Person Status.

I can confirm that this decision has been made by the Head of Development Management in accordance with the authority afforded to that Officer by the appropriate DEFA Delegation.

Decision Made : Permitted Date : 10.05.2019 Determining officer

Signed : S BUTLER Stephen Butler Head of Development Management

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