Amended Application Planning Statement

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31st March 2009

Ref. GL/hh19

Secretary to the Planning Committee DOLGE Murray House Mount Havelock Douglas Isle of Man IM1 2SF

Dear Sirs

Re: Amended Application – Planning Statement Conversion of Farm building to form Residential Property – Balliargev Farm, Abbeylands - Approved Planning Application No: 05/92398B

Please find enclosed an application to amend the above approved scheme.

The amendments to the approved scheme have been developed to address the requirements of the applicants who intend to reside in the property on completion.

The most significant change to the proposal is the reinstatement of the Farm House as the frontage to the property, this being the original layout and at the closest point to the road access to the property. The decision to adopt the Farm House as the front of the property has then logically informed the resultant layout of the property as now presented.

The key elements of the existing group of buildings have been retained and reused as part of these proposals. Necessary amendments are proposed to the existing fabric to bring them up to current good building standards, and to mitigate original weathering problems. The existing buildings are supplemented by extensions which contain the additional facilities expected in a property of this size. Recognising that the Isle of Man Strategic Plan – Housing Policy N° 15 sets limits on the size of extensions to existing properties of no more than 50% of the existing building floor area, we would confirm that these proposals equates to a 30% increase only.

The areas have been calculated as follows:

Increase of 30%

By retaining the existing buildings and reusing them, the eclectic character of the building group has been retained. The extensions are predominantly single storey and adopting wall and roof forms to continue the scale of the existing buildings.

Existing window and door openings have been retained where possible, but inevitably some openings have had to be altered to either suit the new internal layout or to improve the elevational compositions.

The applicants are determined to carry out these works sympathetically with the character of the existing buildings and to retain as much of the inherent charm as possible. Ultimately they would like to develop a house which they and future occupants would be happy to live in, and in so doing bring back into use one of the potentially better properties on the island.

If you have any questions or require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the writer. Yours faithfully

G.Li For and on behalf of Hartford Homes Ltd

Encl.

	Existing	Proposed
Ground Floor	504m²	801m²
First Floor	399m²	395m²
Second Floor	195m²	234m²
Total	1098m²	1430m²