DEC Officer Report

Application No.: 20/01371/B Applicant: Ms Julie Edge Proposal: Removal of a chimney stack Site Address: 43 Briarfield Avenue Onchan Isle Of Man IM3 3JH Planning Officer: Mrs Vanessa Porter Expected Decision Level: Officer Delegation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 18.01.2021 _________________________________________________________________

Conditions and Notes for Approval

C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions C 1. The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.

Reason: To comply with Article 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.

This application has been recommended for approval for the following reason. The proposal is considered to comply with General Policy 2 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016 and therefore acceptable.

Plans/Drawings/Information; This decision relates to the following plans and drawings, date stamped received on 2nd December 2020:

• o Site/Location Plan
• o Photos of the existing chimney stack _______________________________________________________________

Interested Person Status – Additional Persons

None _____________________________________________________________________________

Officer’s Report THE APPLICATION SITE

1.1 The application site is the residential curtilage of 41 Briarfield Avenue, Onchan which is a detached bungalow situated to the most eastern end of the Briarfield Avenue cul-de-sac. The property sits within a wider urban housing estate setting within Onchan.

• THE PROPOSAL
• 2.1 The current planning application seeks approval to remove the current chimney stack to the rear of the property to roof level. PLANNING HISTORY
• 3.1 There are no previous planning applications identified on this site. PLANNING POLICY
• 4.1 The site lies within an area zoned as Predominantly Residential on the Onchan Local Plan 2000 Map. The Onchan Local Plan 2000 has a policy which is relevant to this assessment, O/RES/P/21 which states "Extensions and alterations to existing residential property will general not be opposed where such proposals are appropriate in terms of scale, massing, design, appearance and impact on adjacent property.

4.2 When looking at strategic plan policy the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016 contains one policy that is considered of specific relevance to the assessment to this application, General Policy 2 which states "Development which is in accordance with the land-use zoning and proposals in the appropriate Area Plan and with other policies of this Strategic Plan will normally be permitted, provided that the development:

• b) respects the site and surroundings in terms of the siting, layout, scale, form, design and landscaping of buildings and the spaces around them;
• c) does not affect adversely the character of the surrounding landscape or townscape; g) does not affect adversely the amenity of local residents or the character of the locality;

REPRESENTATIONS

5.1 Highway Services have No Highways Interest in this application (24.12.20).

5.2 Onchan have requested to defer the application till the 11th January 2020 (18.12.20), no additional comments have been received.

ASSESSMENT 6.1 The key issue to consider in the assessment of this planning application is the potential impacts upon the visual amenities of the street scene.

6.2 The existing dwelling and its chimney stack are of no particular architectural or historic interest to warrant the retention of the chimney stack. The stack is not considered to contribute to the appearance of the dwelling, its removal and re-roofing over to match the existing dwelling is expected to create a uniform appearance throughout the roofscape

6.3 The stack itself is relatively small and to the rear of the property. Even though the stack can be seen from a public vantage point of Briarfield Avenue, this is minimal due to the properties location within the cul-de-sac and as such the removal of the chimney stack will not overly change the streetscene enough to warrant refusal. CONCLUSION - 7.1 For the above reasons the proposal is considered to comply with General Policy 2 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016 and therefore acceptable. INTERESTED PERSON STATUS - 8.1 By virtue of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (No 2) Order 2013 (Article 6(4), the following persons are automatically interested persons:

• (a) The applicant, or if there is one, the applicant's agent;
• (b) The owner and the occupier of any land that is the subject of the application or any other person in whose interest the land becomes vested;
• (c) Any Government Department that has made written submissions relating to planning considerations with respect to the application that the Department considers material

• (d) Highway Services Division of Department of Infrastructure and
• (e) The local authority in whose district the land the subject of the application is situated. 8.2 The decision maker must determine:

• o whether any other comments from Government Departments (other than the Department of Infrastructure Highway Services Division) are material; and
• o whether there are other persons to those listed in Article 6(4) who should be given Interested Person Status.

I can confirm that this decision has been made by a Principal Planner in accordance with the authority afforded to that Officer by the appropriate DEFA Delegation and that in making this decision the Officer has agreed the recommendation in relation to who should be afforded Interested Person Status.

Decision Made : Permitted Date: 18.01.2021 Determining officer

Signed : C BALMER Chris Balmer Principal Planner

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