REP Comment 1 Arragon House Arragon Road

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From: To: DEFA, Planning Subject: Objection to planning application 21/00211/B Date: 23 March 2021 15:16:02 Attachments: AJL - 19.03.21.docx

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Dear Sirs,

Please find enclosed an objection to planning application 21/00211/B together with two photos. Please send a return email acknowledging receipt.

Thank you

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Arragon House

My wife and I reside at Arragon House part of the Arragon Estate which includes Arragon Lane that is used to access the Estate from the Old Castletown Road.

As the owners of, ‘Arragon Lane’ a private road passing to the East of the application site, and also fields to the South and East, my wife and I object to the application with ‘Interested persons status’.

Since we have to pass this site with the shipping container clearly visible each time we leave or return home, we object to the planning application for the following reasons: -

• 1. The Application has been misleadingly presented to the Planning Authority. The applicant states in his ‘Supporting Information’ that ’prior to the siting of the container I had ensured that all my neighbours were aware of my intentions’. That is not the case. As his closest neighbours my wife and I were not consulted at all. It transpires that just before the container arrived, asked my brother

(who does not live in Arragon Lane) ’ if he could remove some overhanging dead branches in the lane to transport a container to his cottage to temporarily store certain household articles stored in his attic while urgent roofing work was carried out to the cottage’. My Brother obliged, as we always have, believing a ‘container’ was destined to be sited temporarily by his cottage.

The Application for approval is for something quite different. The container was subsequently delivered and sited over half a mile from cottage in the field adjacent to Arragon Lane which is now the application site. My Wife and I were very surprised at the time, but more so, as no work took place at his cottage and the retrospective planning application arrived for a completely different permanent reason.

• 2. The Application is actually for an Agricultural Storage Unit for agricultural machinery and animal feed but with conflicting comments as to temporary or permanent. At Point 9 the applicant states that it is not a permanent structure. However , the application is for permanent use. If it were not, then no application to the Planning Authority would be necessary.

• 3. A Shipping Container is entirely unsuitable to be considered as a permanent (or Temporary) structure both in terms of Appearance and Design especially in the Open Countryside and which is also within a conservation area.

• 4. Siting of the Container.

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The shipping Container has been sited within 2 metres of the Eastern boundary of the site adjacent to Arragon Lane in a position that interrupts the view from the road to the wider beautiful landscape of the surrounding open countryside in an incongruous and unacceptable manner. This affects all visitors to, and all residents of, Arragon Lane. Please see attached two photos.

5. Proximity to a popular Public Footpath.

Arragon Lane adjacent to the site is also a popular Public Footpath enjoyed by walkers of all ages and also families. As a keen walker myself I must also adopt interested person status for the many people who use the footpath. They would undoubtedly share my incredulity that a shipping container is purported to be a suitable object to be placed in a position where it destroys the wider panoramic views of the open countryside from this part of the footpath, and under the guise that it is suitable as an agricultural building!

We request, with interested persons status, to have this application dealt with by the Planning Committee and to attend and speak.

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Arragon House Cc Martyn Perkins MHK Cc Geoffrey Boot MHK

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From: Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 2:28 pm To: ' Subject: 2 photos

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could you send me the 2 photos of the container as an attachment please AJL