Erection of office building for use as corporate headquarters with car parking and landscaping

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓Office headquarters use consistent with established business park location
• ✓Car parking and landscaping included as part of the scheme
• ✓Site adjacent to existing commercial occupiers in a business park setting
• ✓Delegated approval subject to four conditions
• ✓parking

The application sought permission to erect an office building for use as a corporate headquarters on a vacant plot next to Buchanan BMW and the Dandara Head Office within the Isle of Man Business Park in Braddan. The proposal included car parking and landscaping as part of the development. The site sits within an established business park context, making an office headquarters use consistent with the character of the surrounding area. The application was determined by delegated authority and was permitted on 26 November 2013, subject to four conditions.

The proposal was approved, with the office headquarters use and its business park setting considered acceptable in planning terms. Four conditions were attached to the permission, though the specific requirements are not detailed in the available information.

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 erection of a corporate headquarters office building and associated drainage, access and landscaping all as shown in drawings 100, 101.01, 101.02, 101.03, 101.04 and 102 all received on 6th September, 2013.

3. 3

   Condition 3

   The accommodation hereby approved must be only office accommodation as the corporate headquarters of companies having multiple and diverse interests (but excluding financial/professional services to visiting members of the public) as defined in the Strategic Plan.

4. 4

   Condition 4

   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.

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