Creation of an additional overspill car parking and extended and realigned access road to rear of church

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓Proposed overspill car park along the north side of St. Ninian's Church
• ✓Officer recommended refusal due to harm to the church's setting and character
• ✓Planning Committee approved the application, overturning the officer's recommendation
• ✓Concern that further hard surfacing would leave the church surrounded by car parking rather than a churchyard
• ✓character
• ✓parking
• ✓The site comprises the curtilage of St. Ninian’s Church.
• ✓The application proposes further parking provision – along the north side of the church – and consequential adjustments to paved areas.
• ✓I am a little concerned that the Church will end up stood in a car park rather than a proper churchyard.
• ✓Any further hard surfacing around the Church would have an adverse impact on its setting.

This application sought permission to create additional overspill car parking along the north side of St. Ninian's Church in Douglas, along with an extended and realigned access road to the rear of the church. The case officer recommended refusal, expressing concern that further hard surfacing around the church would harm its setting and that the church risked ending up surrounded by car parking rather than a proper churchyard. Despite this recommendation, the Planning Committee approved the application on 2 November 2005. Three conditions were attached to the permission, though their detail is not set out in the available evidence.

The Planning Committee approved the application on 2 November 2005, despite the case officer recommending refusal. The officer had raised concern that additional hard surfacing along the north side of the church would harm its setting, leaving the church surrounded by car parking rather than a proper churchyard. The Committee nonetheless granted permission, though the specific reasons for overturning the officer's recommendation are not detailed in the available evidence.

Conditions (3)

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

   Prior to the commencement of any works, there must be submitted to and approved by the Planning Committee an amended plan showing the deletion of spaces 38 and 39, such spaces being incorporated into the landscaped area at the front of the church, and the inclusion of at least two spaces suitable for use by disabled drivers.

3. 3

   Condition 3

   Subject to the above condition, this approval relates to the submitted drawings which are date-stamped 5th August 2005.

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