2 October 2014 · Committee
The New Inn, New Road, Laxey, Isle Of Man, IM4 7hs
The application sought permission to demolish the New Inn public house on New Road, Laxey, and replace it with four detached dwellings with associated parking. Amended plans and additional information were submitted during the process to address officer concerns about the stability of the bank during proposed excavation works, the design layout of the scheme, and highway safety. An engineering report was also provided. The available records contain a conflict: the planning portal records the application as refused by Committee on 2 October 2014, while the decision notice document records a formal approval dated 23 January 2015. The decision notice contains eight conditions. The true outcome cannot be stated with certainty from the available evidence alone.
There is a conflict in the available records for this application. The portal records the decision as refused by Committee on 2 October 2014, but the decision notice document records an approval dated 23 January 2015, signed on behalf of the Department and the Minister for Infrastructure. The formal wording in the decision notice approves the application. The true final outcome should be verified against official records.
Residential Policy 1 of Laxey and Lonan Area Plan Order 2005
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Policy L/OSNC/PR/6 of The Laxey and Lonan Local Plan 2005
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Condition 1
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.
Condition 2
All boundary walls to the yards of the dwellings hereby approved shall be at least 1.5 m high and constructed in natural stone and retained as such thereafter.
Condition 3
No development shall commence until a sample panel of all external facing materials to be used for the retaining walls has been erected on site and approved in writing by the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Building Control. The approved sample panel shall be kept on site for reference until the development is completed. The development shall not be carried out unless in accordance with the approved details.
Condition 4
Subject to the requirements of Conditions 2 and 3, the retaining and boundary walls to the yards shall not be constructed other than in complete accordance with the approved drawings: C/3664/6(d) and C/3664/8(O) each date stamped as received on 17 July 2014, and C/3664/1(A), C/3664/9(B) and an unnumbered OS site plan each date stamped as received on 1 August 2014.
Condition 5
The front doors to the dwellings hereby approved shall be constructed of hardwood and painted in a colour other than cream or white.
Condition 6
The parking spaces hereby approved shall be defined by kerb stones set within the approved paving.
Condition 7
Subject to the requirement of Condition 6, no dwelling hereby approved shall be occupied until the parking and turning areas serving that dwelling 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.
Condition 8
No development shall commence until there has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Building Control, details of a wall not higher than 600 mm topped by steel railings for the full length of the frontage between the points of access and transversely forward of the building line between the curtilages of houses 2 and 3 as numbered on the approved drawings. Before any house is occupied, these walls shall be erected as approved and thereafter retained, and the visibility splays shown on drawing 0/3664/9(B) shall be provided and thereafter kept permanently clear of any other obstruction exceeding 600 mm in height above the adjacent carriageway.
