Minor changes application for PA 19/00793/B involving amendment to window and door arrangement

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓Amendment to window and door arrangement at Kilkenny Cottage
• ✓Minor changes application linked to parent approval 19/00793/B
• ✓Officer noted no concerns given the site context
• ✓Changes assessed as not increasing footprint, dwellings, or materially altering the original approval
• ✓scale
• ✓Only one minor changes application may be made in respect of any particular grant of planning approval.
• ✓Must relate to a grant of planning approval in respect of a building
• ✓Must specify what minor changes are being sought and why the applicant considers them to be of a minor nature
• ✓Cannot increase the number of dwellings or buildings for which planning approval has been granted
• ✓Cannot increase the net external footprint of a building for which planning approval has been granted
• ✓Cannot alter the site for which planning approval has been granted and which was defined by a red line on the site location map by changing that line
• ✓Cannot make material changes to the vehicular access arrangements for which planning approval has been granted
• ✓Cannot alter the conditions (if any) which have been imposed
• ✓Cannot be made where the parent approval is less than 21 days old, subject to an undetermined appeal or has expired
• ✓Must not significantly increase the size or scale of the development in question
• ✓Must not significantly change the nature of the development in question
• ✓Must not result in an approval which, at the time of approval, complied with a Development Plan, National Policy Directive or a Planning Policy Statement, ceasing to do so
• ✓Must not result in new or increased adverse impacts on adjoining or neighbouring properties having a significant or disproportionate impact on the environment
• ✓Must not be more than minor and to be of a magnitude to warrant a new application
• ✓Must not otherwise fundamentally change the basis on which the grant was originally made.
• ✓No unacceptable or materially different impacts visually or on neighbouring property amenity

This application sought minor changes to a previously approved planning permission (reference 19/00793/B) at Kilkenny Cottage, Colooneys Lane, Cooil, Douglas. The proposed changes involved amendments to the window and door arrangement on the building. The application was assessed against the criteria that apply to minor changes applications, including that the changes must be genuinely minor, must not increase the number of dwellings or the net external footprint, and must not fundamentally alter the basis of the original approval. The case officer raised no concerns, noting the context of the site, and the application was permitted by delegated decision on 20 July 2020.

The application was permitted on 20 July 2020 under delegated authority. The officer raised no concerns about the proposed changes, particularly given the context of the site. The amendments were considered minor in nature and met the relevant criteria for a minor changes application.

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