27 October 2021 · Delegated
Unit 24, Gladstone Park Industrial Estate, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM8 2la
This application sought permission to change the use of Unit 24 at Gladstone Park Industrial Estate in Ramsey from light industrial to the assemblage, storage, and sale of furniture goods. The Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture refused the application on 27 October 2021. The refusal was based on a single planning reason: the proposed retail use conflicts with strategic policies in the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016 that are intended to protect the vitality of town centres. Those policies direct retail development to town centre locations, and the decision-maker found that furniture of this type and scale could reasonably be sold from within a town centre, or from a site properly zoned as industrial use.
The application was refused because the proposed retail use of furniture goods at an industrial estate unit conflicts with Isle of Man Strategic Plan policies designed to direct retail activity to town centres. The decision-maker concluded that furniture of this type and scale could reasonably be sold from a town centre location, or alternatively from a site properly zoned for industrial use, rather than from a light industrial unit at Gladstone Park.
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