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TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1999 The Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019
In pursuance of powers granted under the above Act and Order the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture determined to APPROVE an application by Department Of Infrastructure Harbours Division, Ref 24/00301/B, for the Ongoing operation and decommissioning of a temporary lagoon facility for dewatering and storing sediment dredged from Peel Marina with associated temporary pipelines along and alongside the River Neb between Ballaterson Farm and Peel Marina until 31st December 2027 at Field 315179 Ballaterson Farm Glenfaba Road Peel Isle Of Man .
Any conditions or notes which apply to the approval are set out below. This approval is subject to compliance with any conditions listed and may not be implemented until it becomes final (see guidance notes).
Reason: The Environmental Impact Assessment has been produced to support a number of applications required to implement the retention and decommissioning of the existing dewatering lagoon and discharge pipeline.
Reason: To ensure that the site is restored within the timescale set out in the application and to prevent any long term loss of land, as the application has been submitted and assessed on the basis of it being a temporary period only.
The contractor's working area shall thereafter be established prior to the commencement of decommissioning works and operated in accordance in accordance with the approved details.
Reason: To ensure that any highway safety and amenity impact, including visual impact of the use of the area as a contractor's area is minimised.
Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and to ensure that the development is carried out in accordance with the approved details.
Each plan shall subsequently be implemented in accordance with the approved details set out the approved plan.
Reason: To ensure management, mitigation and monitoring plans in accordance with the details set out in the Environmental Impact Assessment Report, The Bates Partnership, dated April 2025.
Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and to ensure that the development is carried out in accordance with the approved details.
Reason: To ensure that the mitigation as set out in Tables 2.6 and 11.1 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Report, The Bates Partnership, dated April 2025 is implemented.
The Ecological Clerk of Works shall be present on-site during the decommissioning of the discharge pipeline to ensure that pipeline removal also complied with the mitigation measures set out in the mitigation plan Common Lizard Mitigation Plan to avoid impacts on common lizard.
Reason: To ensure that the mitigation measures set out in Section 2.4 and paragraphs 2.4.6 2.4.9 and 2.4.11, including Tables 2.6, and Paragraphs 7.3.10-7.3.13 11.2.1-11.2.2 and Table
Planning Application Cover Letter from the Director of Harbours, Department of Infrastructure, dated 7th March 2024 as amended by Planning Application Cover Letter from the Director of Harbours, Department of Infrastructure, dated 21st May 2025
Drawing No. 674/P/001 Site Location Plan - Lagoon, dated 23rd February 2024
Drawing No. AB-03 Peel Silt Lagoon - As Built Survey Record, dated 20th July 2020 Drawing No. A800-AB-05 Peel Silt Lagoon - As Built Survey Record Silt Storage 30-06-2021, dated 25th August 2021
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0011 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0012 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0013 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0014 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0017 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0018 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0019 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0020 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0021 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons -
Drawing No. A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XX-DR-C-0100 Rev. C2 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoons Proposed Lagoon Setting Out, dated 22nd January 2020
Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoon - Stability Calculations, Tony Gee, dated 18th March 2019 Peel Harbour Settlement Lagoon - Stability Calculations, Document No: A119028-TGEE-ZZ-XXCA-C-0001 Rev. P02Tony Gee, dated 22nd January 2021 and (various dates) March 2019
Isle of Man, Department of Infrastructure, Planning Application for the Extension of Dredged Material, Dewatering at Peel, Environmental Impact Assessment Report, The Bates Partnership, dated April 2025
Isle of Man, Department of Infrastructure, Planning Application for the Extension of Dredged Material, Dewatering at Peel , Non-Technical Summary of the Environmental Impact Assessment Report, The Bates Partnership, dated April 2025
Traffic Count Data, Mill Road, Peel 2024 Traffic Count Data, Heathfield Drive, Peel 2024
This decision has been made for the following reasons(s) The Officer's report on previously approved Planning Application Ref. 18/01293/B, in 2019 concluded that the site could be developed as temporary de-watering lagoon, together with the associated pipelines, without prejudicing the long-term development of the lagoon site in accordance with its land-use zoning in the Local Plan, but that the grant of planning permission should ensure by condition that the site is restored to it original condition as agricultural land.
The position now remains essentially unchanged, except that the planning application for the remediation of the Cross Vein Mine has now been submitted as a separate but concurrent application. The timescales for the proposed works linked to the Cross Vein Mine remediation scheme tie in with the proposed end date for restoration of the Peel de-watering lagoon, and on this basis it is recommended, in principle, that this application, also be approved essentially with a shorter and amended set of similar conditions to those contained in Planning Permission Ref. 18/01293/B, to the extent that these needs only to deal with the decommissioning of the lagoon and discharge pipeline and restoration of Field 315179 subject to the proposal being acceptable in terms of the traffic and environmental impacts.
The conclusions of the assessment in the updated EIA report of the impact across the range of environmental effects has not change significantly since they were considered when the original application for the construction of the de-watering lagoon and discharge pipeline was approved in March 2019, with the impact being assessed as being negligible to minor averse, but of only limited duration, with the lagoon site and the route of the discharge pipeline being restored to their original condition by 31st December 2027. The application can accordingly be considered to be compliant with The Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016, Strategic Policies 1,2, 4 and 10, Waste Policy 1, General Policy 2, and Environment Policies, 4, 7, 22 and 24 and Recreation Policy 5.
Date of Issue: 4th February 2026
A MORGAN 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. This decision refers only to that applied for under the Town and Country Planning Act 1999 and its subordinate legislation. A copy of the Officer’s report and any correspondence which informed the assessment and decision is available to view on the Government’s website (via https://pbc.gov.im/online-applications/)
Implementation The decision does not become final until either
Development must progress in accordance with the plans approved under, and any conditions attached to this approval (irrespective of any changes that may separately be requested at the Building Control stage or by any other Statutory Authority). This approval does not remove the need to also comply with any other relevant legislation.
Any conditions requiring certain works, submissions etc. prior to commencement of development must be fulfilled prior to work starting on site. Failure to adhere to this approval and meet the requirements of all conditions may invalidate this approval or result in formal enforcement action.
Appeal Any appeal must be in writing and submitted to the Department within 21 days of the date of this Notice. The appeal must contain:
Failure to meet all of the relevant above requirements will mean that the appeal cannot be validated. An appeal form and more detailed guidance are available either from Planning & Building Control, Tel 685950, or from the Department’s website www.gov.im/planningappeal If this decision becomes final because there is no appeal, the Department’s public reference copy (counter copy) of the planning application (should one have been received) may be collected by the applicant or their agent from Murray House. 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.
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