Officer Planning Report 10/00837/B

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Officer's Report

The Site

The site represents the curtilage of an approved plot within a developing estate to the south west of Castletown. The estate comprises 41 dwellings and the conversion of existing barns on the site to living accommodation. A number of the plots are currently being developed. Plot 23 sits in the centre of the site and accommodates, as approved, a detached dwelling which faces north east and alongside an access to a rear parking area serving the plots to the west and south west.

The house type already permitted is a two storey house with dormer accommodation, front dormers, rear rooflights, ground floor front bays and a single storey rear annex which stretches across part of the southern side of the rear elevation. A detached garage was permitted to the west and accessed from the main estate road.

Planning Status

The site lies within an area designated as Predominantly Residential on both the 1991 Castletown Local Plan and the draft Southern Area Plan which was published on 23rd October, 2009.

Planning History

The layout was permitted on appeal after many years of applications, under PA 04/2083. Alterations to this were permitted under PAs 09/1335, 09/1949 and 10/0241.

THE PROPOSAL

Now proposed are alterations to the approved dwelling, notably the extension of the rear annex, still single storey but now flat roofed with a parapet and lantern light, and projecting closer to the road than does the main house. Also, the addition of a new window in the centre of the first floor rear elevation is proposed and the creation of a driveway across the space to the side of the house alongside the road and the erection of 1.8m high walling with stone piers along both side boundaries, the southern walling coming within 5m of the estate road and the western walling coming within 1m of the road. Access to the garage will be directly of the communal parking area, with no set back area for vehicles to park whilst opening and closing the garage door.

REPRESENTATIONS

ASSESSMENT

PARTY STATUS

The local authority is, by virtue of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2005, paragraph 6 (5) (d), considered an "interested person" and as such should be afforded party status.

Recommendation

Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 09.07.2010 Conditions and Notes for Approval / Reasons and Notes for Refusal

C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions R : Reasons for refusal

• : Notes attached to refusals

C 1. The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.

C 2. This permission relates to the erection of a dwelling and garage as shown in drawings 001, 01M, 901-01 and 901-02 all received on 4th June, 2010 and 901-03 received on 1st July, 2010.

C 3. All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development or the occupation of the dwellings, whichever is the sooner. Any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed, or become seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species.

I confirm that this decision accords with the appropriate Government Circular delegating functions to the Senior Planning Officer.

Decision Made : Permitted Date : 12 July 2010

Signed : [Signature] Senior Planning Officer