28 November 2007 · Delegated
Pinfold Cottage, Pinfold Hill, Laxey, Isle Of Man, IM4 7hn
Permission was granted to demolish an outbuilding at Pinfold Cottage, Pinfold Hill, Laxey, and replace it with a new building to be used as tourist accommodation. The site forms part of the curtilage of a detached dwelling in the parish of Lonan. The application was decided under delegated authority on 28 November 2007. The officer recommended approval, and the decision was permitted in line with that recommendation. The main planning issues examined were the effect on public amenity, the effect on private amenity, and highway safety. Five conditions were attached to the permission.
The application was permitted by the Director of Planning and Building Control under delegated authority. The key planning issues considered were the impact on public and private amenity and highway safety, and the proposal was found acceptable on those grounds.
Residential development will generally only be approved within the study area in those areas designated as proposed and existing residential. In particular, in the case of Agneash no further dwellings will be approved although, as will be the case in areas zoned as residential, alterations and extensions to existing property may be accepted if such proposals are sympathetic to the character and appearance of both the building to be altered and the surrounding area in general.
Given that the proposed use accords with the land use designation for the application site it is concluded that there are no planning policy reasons why the principle of the creation of tourist, or indeed ancillary, accommodation is not acceptable.
Condition 1
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Condition 2
This approval relates to drawing no.s 1484/1, AT900.1 and AT900.2 date stamped the 8th August 2007.
Condition 3
The accommodation created by this approval must only be used as either:- a) holiday accommodation for individual lets not exceeding four weeks in duration; or b) accommodation ancillary to that of the existing dwelling. For the avoidance of doubt, no approval should hereby be conferred by this approval for the use of the new accommodation as a separate dwelling.
Condition 4
Prior to the first habitable accommodation of the building hereby permitted by this approval the garden wall to the front of Pinfold Cottage must be rebuilt, and thereafter retained, at a height no greater than one metre.
Condition 5
There must be no discharge of surface water to the main foul sewer.
