Creation of hard standing and vehicular access onto Victoria Road,

Why Was This Refused?

• ✓Committee refusal against officer recommendation to approve
• ✓New vehicular access onto Victoria Road, 3.2 metres wide with 1.6-metre timber gates
• ✓Existing access already present from Marathon Road
• ✓Highway issues identified as a key planning concern
• ✓Visual amenity identified as a key planning concern
• ✓highways
• ✓amenity
• ✓Highway issues
• ✓visual amenity

The proposal was to create a new hardstanding and a 3.2-metre-wide vehicular access through the existing boundary wall onto Victoria Road at Clarecourt, a detached dwelling in a predominantly residential area of Douglas. Timber gates 1.6 metres high, set back 5 metres from the public highway, and a tapered wall between the gate piers were also proposed. The property already had an existing vehicular access from Marathon Road with parking within the curtilage. The key planning issues identified were highway matters and visual amenity. The officer recommended approval, but the Planning Committee refused the application. The available evidence does not set out the committee's full reasons for refusal, though highway and visual amenity concerns were the identified issues.

The Planning Committee refused the application, disagreeing with the officer's recommendation to approve. The identified planning issues were highway matters and visual amenity, though the full reasons behind the committee's decision are not fully set out in the available evidence.

Conditions (2)

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 permission relates to the creation of a hardstanding and a vehicular access as shown in drawing numbers 01 AT Nov.09, 02 AT Nov.09, and 03 AT Nov. 09 date-stamped 27th August 2010.

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