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This is a proposal for a new house in the grounds of Mount Rule House, an extended late Georgian building in substantial grounds which has been subdivided into apartments in more recent years. The new house plot is c. 0.35 hectares in area, is located to the west of the existing driveway and fronts south over the A23 with views to the hills south of the Central Valley of the Isle of Man
Mount Rule House is accessed by a stone walled gateway from the A23 highway about 65 m . west of it's junction with the B22. An earlier outline approval, for a new house, PA 08/00179/A, envisaged sharing and improving this access, which is what is now proposed and has been agreed with the Highway Authority. A driveway for the new house plot is taken off the main drive shortly after the access road passes through the main gateway which is to be remodelled and rebuilt.
The proposed house is to be located in a clearing surrounded by mature trees on all sides and is approached through a gap between the trees formed by the removal of one sycamore tree. Two more small sycamore trees are required to be removed in order to widen the main driveway. New tree planting is proposed within the scheme to fill a small gap in the surrounding trees and to provide improved screening to another house to the east of the main driveway called Close Moar.
The proposed house takes the form of a classical late Georgian building with symmetrical elevations on all four sides. The house will be entered from a courtyard at the eastern end. The courtyard is to be enclosed on it's northern side by a carriage house that contains garaging on the ground floor and a staff or visitor flat on the first floor. The carriage house is attached to the main house by a garden wall in which is inserted a gateway giving access to private gardens behind the house.
A single storey garden room is located at the eastern end of the house beyond the kitchen, utility room and storage areas. An external kitchen door gives access to a small parking area served by a private gravel drive running across the south side of the house.
Within the house the main reception room and a media room are located either side of a central corridor. A study and cloakroom are located in the south-east corner off the large entrance hall from which the main staircase rises to a wide landing with open seating areas. An enclosed staircase gives access from the landing to the large attic space above.
A laundry is located off the landing from which a central corridor leads to the bedrooms. The master bedroom suite is located on the south side of the corridor with a guest bedroom suite on the north side. Three en suite study bedrooms are located at the western end of the first floor corridor.
The house itself divides the site in two with an open garden on the south side providing views through the trees across the Central Valley. The main house and the carriage house provide enclosure to a private garden on the north side of the house surrounded by mature planting on the north and west sides. Car parking is provided at both the private, western end of the house and the formal, eastern end.
The proposed external materials are natural or reconstituted slate roofing, painted rendered walls with reconstituted stone features, painted timber windows. The site will be extensively landscaped to supplement the existing mature planting.
The principal planning policy documents relating to this site are The Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2007 (the Strategic Plan) and The Braddan Parish District Local Plan 1991 (the Area Plan). Under paragraph 1.4.4 the Strategic Plan has precedence over the Area Plan in the case of any inconsistency between the two.
Within Map No.2 (Central) of the Braddan Parish Local Plan, the application site lies within an area zoned as 'Low Density Housing in Parkland'. This type of development is required to meet the requirements of Planning Circular 8/89 'Low Density in Parkland'. This proposal complies with these requirements.
Strategic Policy General Policy 2 sets out criteria to be met for 'Development which is in accordance with the land-use zoning in the appropriate Area Plan and with other policies of [the] Strategic Plan ...'. This proposal meets with all the relevant criteria cited in this policy.
October 2010
Hugh Logan Architects
Bridge Court
10 Bridge Street
Castletown
Isle of Man
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