Change of use of garage to a therapy facility

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓Change of use of an attached garage to a therapy facility at a detached house in a residential estate
• ✓Potential impact on neighbouring amenities was a key consideration
• ✓Potential highway safety impacts were assessed, including driveway length and road width
• ✓Application was approved with four conditions attached
• ✓highways
• ✓potential impact upon neighbouring amenities
• ✓potential impacts upon highway safety

Permission was granted to convert an attached garage at 36 Ballatessan Meadow, Peel into a therapy facility. The property is a detached two-storey house in a relatively modern residential estate of semi-detached and detached properties. The main planning considerations were the potential effects on neighbouring amenities and highway safety. The site has a driveway approximately 6 metres long and 5 metres wide, and the estate road in front of the property is between 5.5 and 6 metres wide. The application was approved by committee on 31 December 2012, subject to four conditions.

The Department of Infrastructure approved the change of use on 31 December 2012. The key planning considerations were the potential impact on neighbouring amenities and highway safety, both of which were found to be acceptable given the site's characteristics, including the existing driveway and the width of the estate road.

Policies Assessed (3)

Conditions (4)

1. 1

   Condition 1

   The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.

2. 2

   Condition 2

   This approval relates to the change of use of garage to a therapy facility as proposed in the submitted documents which are date-stamped 31st October 2012.

3. 3

   Condition 3

   The approved change of use of the garage to a beauty therapy facility may be used between 0900hrs and 1700hrs Monday to Friday. For clarification, no approval is hereby granted for the use of the premises as a beauty therapy facility on Saturday or Sunday or outside the times stated above.

4. 4

   Condition 4

   This permission shall enure for the benefit of Jacqueline Michelle Sheen only, and only for the time that she is the resident of 36 Ballatessan Meadow.

Documents (19)