Reserved Matters application for the erection of a replacement dwelling with integral garaging

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓Reserved matters approval for a replacement dwelling with integral garaging at High Bank, Santon
• ✓Scheme amended during assessment, with revised drawings received June 2009
• ✓Total external floor area measured at 494 sq m including habitable attic and basement space
• ✓Design required to be traditional in character while staying within the permitted size
• ✓Landscape impact of the new dwelling was a central planning consideration
• ✓Existing building High Bank indicated for demolition as part of the replacement
• ✓design
• ✓character
• ✓planning approval in principle and the impact which the dwelling will have on the wider landscape
• ✓requirement for a traditionally designed dwelling must also be considered whilst maintaining the size permitted
• ✓floor area is larger than would be the case with a modest traditional farm house

This reserved matters application sought approval for the detailed design of a replacement dwelling with integral garaging at High Bank, Knock Froy Road, Santon. The application followed an earlier grant of planning permission in principle and dealt with the specifics of the design, scale, and appearance of the new house. The scheme was amended during the assessment process, with revised drawings submitted in June 2009. The total external floor area was remeasured at 494 sq m, covering all habitable attic and basement space, which the officer noted is larger than a modest traditional farmhouse. The existing building, High Bank, was shown as being demolished as part of the replacement. The officer considered the dwelling's impact on the wider landscape and the need for a traditionally designed building within the permitted size.

The reserved matters application was approved by the Senior Planning Officer under delegated authority on 3 September 2009. The scheme had been amended during the process, with revised drawings submitted in June 2009. Key considerations included the dwelling's impact on the wider landscape and the requirement for a traditionally designed replacement, noting that the total floor area of 494 sq m is larger than a modest traditional farmhouse. The formal decision record lists 4 conditions.

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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. 3

   Condition 3

   Within one week of the first occupation of the new dwelling hereby approved the existing property of High Bank shall be vacated of all persons, stores and domestic furniture and equipment and within three months of the first occupation of the replacement dwelling, High Bank shall be demolished, all materials removed from the site and the site restored to use as an agricultural field.

3. 4

   Condition 4

   Prior to the commencement of works on site, visibility splays of 2 m by 18 m must be accessible to drivers of vehicles emerging from the site onto the access lane and from the lane onto the roadway leading to the A5 Castletown Road. The visibility splays should be maintained thereafter.

4. 5

   Condition 5

   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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