SPMCE and Disability Access Responses

Society for the Preservation of the Manx Countryside and Environment

06/00691/B

Installation of four bollard type low level lights, Maughold Village Car Park

MAUGHOLD

FOUNDED 1938 REGD. CHARITY (IOM) No.391 PATRON: HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CHAIRMAN CHARLES FLYNN 31, FIRST AVENUE DOUGLAS HON. SECRETARY MRS. M.B. CRELLIN CRONK ny GREINEY, GLASHEN CLOSE, BALLASALLA, MALEW

ON PLANNING ISSUES PLEASE REPLY TO: S.P.M.C.& E c/o Glebe Cottage, Maughold, (via Ramsey) IM7 1AS Phone 815748 Email: [email protected]

Secretary to the Planning Committee, Department of Planning & the Environment, Murray House, DOUGLAS

Dear Ms. Callow, SPMC&E VIEWS ON APPLICATIONS from WEEKLY LIST 2006/17-- List dated -04/05/06 As sent Date of this response -06/05/06

SHEET 2

In connection with 05/1071 we said (en passant): “Attached building in stables etc group. OK but a back-door approach” We did not write formally on it. Strange though, that those words “a back-door approach” should be repeated on this new submission? Would relaxation amount to the conversion of this Tourist accommodation into a new dwelling in the countryside? If it doesn’t, then the Society will not object.

06/00692/C

Variation of condition three imposed on planning permission for approved 05/01071/C, Stone Barn Lower Glentrammon Farm Glen Tramman

LEZAYRE

In considering 05/2073 we commented as follows: As with 05/2024 above, this is a typical 3 storey, Georgian style, large Manx Farmhouse, like many around the Island, reflecting a period of agricultural prosperity or, more likely, as a result of Manx Merchants returning rich from overseas ventures in the Running Trade, the Slave Trade or perhaps Mining and who then spent some of their money in rebuilding the family farm.. Now it is to have a new injection of overseas(?) money in extensions and modifications reflecting the current lifestyles of the very rich. It can be a matter of opinion as to whether this is a good or bad thing? In that it involves a considerable degree of restoration. I incline to the former view. As most of these schemes seem to get Approved, I can only assume that the Planning Committee agree? The Society therefore raises no objection.

Despite our gloomy forecast, that scheme was refused. From memory, the new scheme seems very similar to that but omitting all new outbuildings, swimming pool etc. As I said before, there remains a considerable degree of RESTORATION within the overall proposals and therefore the Society raises no objections.

06/00682/B

Erection of extensions to existing farmhouse, Grenaby Farm Grenaby Ballasalla

MALEW

Although a big improvement over the former suburban street lights, the Illuminated Bollards are of essentially hard, modern type and are neither rustic or even Victorian in form. Cannot the applicants find anything better? They could visit one or two Garden Centres. The Society is disappointed.

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Disability Access Office

06/00691/B

Installation of four bollard type low level lights, Maughold Village Car Park

MAUGHOLD

Planning Application Submission

Comment

All street furniture should fit in with surroundings but must be visible to everyone including members of the public who are visually impaired.

If the bollards are on a pavement then care needs to be taken that there is still enough room for a wheelchair or Mothers with prams can still pass without having to dismount the pavement.

Room needs to be left between the bollards so wheelchairs or Mothers with prams can manoeuvre around them.