Erection of an office development with parking and associated works to replace existing offices and gym (8/2/10 Duration of consent extended to 29/12/11.)

Why Was This Refused?

• ✓Proposal to replace existing offices and gym with a new office development including parking at 39 Finch Road, Douglas
• ✓Site is a mixed-use town centre location bounded by Christian Road, Finch Road, Mona Terrace Lane, and the Bank of Ireland
• ✓Officer recommended refusal, referencing a previous refusal on grounds of size, style, and parking
• ✓Parking shortfall identified, with 14 spaces potentially off-site and details not provided
• ✓Drainage concerns raised as a reason to defer
• ✓Conflicting records: portal shows refusal in 2004, decision notice document records approval in 2005
• ✓design
• ✓parking
• ✓drainage
• ✓Previous refusal (02/377) on grounds relating to size, style/form, and parking
• ✓Parking shortfall (14 spaces would be off-site; details not provided; would accept Grampian condition)
• ✓Defer for drainage reasons

This application sought permission to erect a new office development with parking at 39 Finch Road, Douglas, replacing existing offices and a gym on a town centre mixed-use site. The planning officer recommended refusal, noting a previous refusal for a similar scheme on grounds of size, style, and parking, as well as an unresolved parking shortfall and drainage concerns. The application was considered by committee. The available records conflict: the portal records a refusal dated May 2004, while the decision notice document records a ministerial approval dated December 2005. It is not possible to confirm the definitive outcome from the evidence provided.

The portal records this application as refused by committee in May 2004, but the decision notice document records an approval dated December 2005. These two records conflict and cannot be fully reconciled from the available evidence. The officer had recommended refusal, citing a previous refusal on similar grounds, a parking shortfall, and drainage concerns. The formal decision record lists 7 conditions.

Conditions (7)

1. 1

   Condition 1

   The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.

2. 2

   Condition 2

   The offices hereby permitted shall not be occupied until the hardstanding forming the turning area and the on-site parking spaces shown on the approved plans has been completed, and the hardstanding area and parking spaces shall be kept available and used for none other purpose.

3. 3

   Condition 3

   No water or contaminants shall be permitted to flow or be tracked by vehicle wheels onto the highway.

4. 4

   Condition 4

   No development shall take place except in accordance with a construction method statement which shall be submitted for the written approval of the Planning Committee.

5. 5

   Condition 5

   The development shall not be occupied unless provision has been made for the storage and collection of refuse in accordance with a scheme to be submitted for the written approval of the Planning Committee.

6. 6

   Condition 6

   No development shall take place except in accordance with details or samples of the external finishes which have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Committee.

7. 7

   Condition 7

   This approval relates to drawings numbered 1130/20B, /21B, /22C, /23C, /24B, /25A, /26B, /27B, /28B, /29 date stamped 10 October 2004.

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