12 April 2024 · Committee
New Yard, Milner Terrace, Castletown, Isle Of Man, IM9 1te
The proposal involves redeveloping the Commissioners' Yard, Workshops, Office, and an existing dwelling house at Milner Terrace, Castletown, to create a brewery with an associated tap room, eatery, and offices. A link extension would connect the buildings on site. The main planning issues considered were the operational impacts of the tap room, eatery, and outdoor terrace and garden areas; potential noise and fumes from the brewery itself; vehicle and cycle parking; and the presence of nesting birds and protected species on site. The Planning Committee concluded that the proposal was acceptable. Operational matters relating to the tap room, eatery, and outdoor areas were considered manageable through the licensing process. Noise and fumes from the brewery were judged unlikely to be significant given the modern nature of the equipment and brewing methods proposed.
The committee was satisfied that noise and fumes from the brewery were unlikely to cause harm due to modern equipment and processes. Impacts from the tap room and outdoor areas could be controlled through licensing, parking provision was considered sufficient subject to a management plan, and ecological concerns about nesting birds and protected species were addressed through planning conditions.
Condition 1
The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.
Condition 2
Prior to the commencement of development on the site area including any works of demolition, precise details and samples of the construction materials proposed to be used for the external surfaces of the new Brewery building as outlined on Drawing No. WL/23/1574 - 3A; and the conversion of the existing workshop, dwelling, link extension and garden terrace as outlined on Drawing No. WL/23/1574 - 2; shall be submitted to and approved in writing by DEFA Planning. Thereafter, the development shall be carried out in accordance with these approved details. The details shall include samples of natural roof slate, dressed limestone, vertical timer cladding and colour finish; details of the lime mortar and mortar mix to be used; details of rendering; window and door frames; guttering and downpipes; and Velux conservation type rooflights.
Condition 3
The car parking layout including the provision of 3 No. parking disabled spaces; spaces for motorcycle parking; and, all facilities for the secure storage of cycles shall be provided in accordance with the details shown on Drawing No. WL/23/1574 - 4I - stamped received on 16th January, 2024, shall be laid out and made available for parking purposes prior to the first use of the development, hereby permitted, thereafter these spaces and facilities shall be made available for vehicle and motorcycle parking, and secure cycle storage for the lifetime of the development.
Condition 4
Prior to the commencement of the development hereby approved, and in conjunction with the requirements of condition 3 for the implementation of the approved car parking layout as shown on Drawing No. WL/23/1574 - 4I - stamped received on 16th January, 2024, of this planning permission, a Parking Management Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by DEFA Planning. Such plan shall: - - Designate the three spaces fronting the office for use as public parking mitigating the loss of on-street parking; and, - - Secure the use of three additional off-site parking spaces for office staff use; Thereafter these spaces shall be made available for public vehicle parking (3 spaces on site opposite Milner Terrace). In addition, three spaces for office staff vehicles must be available in addition to the parking spaces within the site, at all times, details of which must be approved by the Department.
Condition 5
Prior to the first occupation of the development, hereby approved, a Landscaping Strategy shall be submitted to and approved in writing by DEFA Planning. The Landscaping Strategy shall include details of all planting and sowing, including size, species and numbers of trees and plants, ground preparation, management and maintenance, as well as methods to eradicate any invasive species that may be present (Japanese Knotweed). All planting, seeding, and earth works comprised in the approved details of landscaping shall be carried out in the first planting and season (November - March) following the substantial completion of the development whichever is the sooner, and any trees or plants which within a period of 5 years from the completion of the development die, are removed or become seriously damaged or diseased shall be replaced in the next planting season with others of similar size and species.
Condition 6
Prior to the commencement of development, including any repointing, the following schedule of survey work shall be carried out and inform an Ecological Mitigation Plan required to be submitted by condition 7 of this planning permission. Such survey work shall include: Breeding bird surveys; Bat emergence surveys; All of which need to be undertaken following UK best practise guidelines, in the right seasons and by a suitably qualified ecology consultancy.
Condition 7
Prior to the commencement of development, including any repointing, an ecological mitigation plan written by a suitably qualified ecological consultancy, informed by the surveys secured by condition 6 of this planning permission, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by DEFA Planning and the development then carried out in accordance with these details. The ecological mitigation plan must contain measures for the avoidance and minimisation of impacts on wildlife, as well as compensation measures. Details should include the location of all existing nesting and roosting sites; and, those that are proposed to be retained and protected, the number, type, specification and location of new bat and bird bricks, hedging species, lighting requirements, work timings, Ecologist supervision as well as other measures required by the ecological surveys. Thereafter, these features shall be permanently retained and maintained
Condition 8
No works to commence until a sensitive low level lighting plan, following best practise as detailed in the Bat Conservation Trust and Institute of Lighting Professionals Guidance Note 8/23 on Bats and Artificial Lighting (2023) and recommendations within the Ecological Mitigation Plan required by Condition 7 of this planning permission has been submitted to Planning and approved in writing. All works must be undertaken in full accordance with this plan.
Condition 9
Details of foul and surface water drainage provision, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Such approved drainage scheme shall be installed prior to the development hereby permitted being first occupied and shall thereafter be retained and maintained at all times.
