Installation of an air handling unit on existing roof

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓The roof is already characterised by equipment and rooflights
• ✓New equipment is unlikely to appear as a detrimental or conspicuous feature
• ✓Proposal relates to an air handling unit on an existing roof at Castle Rushen High School
• ✓The described roof section faces towards the entrance from Arbory Road
• ✓access
• ✓new equipment will be seen, it is unlikely to appear as a detrimental or conspicuous feature

The proposal is the installation of an air handling unit on an existing roof at Castle Rushen High School. The roof area is part of a flat-roofed section facing towards the entrance from Arbory Road, within the school curtilage. The officer report notes the roof is already characterised by equipment and rooflights, and that any additional equipment is unlikely to be a detrimental or conspicuous feature. The portal decision outcome is permitted (approved).

The application was approved, meaning permission was granted for the installation of an air handling unit on the existing roof. The officer report considered the roofscape context, noting it already contains equipment and rooflights, and that the new equipment is unlikely to be detrimental or conspicuous. The formal decision record lists 2 conditions.

Policies Assessed (3)

Conditions (2)

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

   This permission relates to the installation of an air handling unit and associated ducts and silencer as shown in drawings reference 32121/01 and -02 both received on 5th October, 2006.

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