Additional use of ground floor shop as a cafe

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓Proposal: additional use of a ground floor shop as a café
• ✓Location: 35 North Quay, Douglas, IM1 4LB
• ✓Site context: within the Douglas (North Quay) Conservation Area
• ✓Site description: terraced properties facing the quay next to “The British”
• ✓Outcome: approved, subject to conditions
• ✓heritage

The application sought permission for the additional use of the ground floor shop as a café at 35 North Quay, Douglas, IM1 4LB. The property is described as one of a group of terraced properties facing the quay next to “The British”, and it is within the Douglas (North Quay) Conservation Area. The formal decision is that the application was approved. The approval is subject to compliance with conditions (five conditions are noted in the extracted information).

The application was approved, allowing the additional use of the ground floor shop as a café. The decision is recorded in the formal decision wording and is subject to compliance with conditions. The provided evidence also notes the site context within the Douglas (North Quay) Conservation Area and its terraced frontage characteristics, as set out in the officer report excerpts.

Conditions (5)

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 additional use of the shop as a café as shown in drawing numbers 4181/1 and 4181 L1 date-stamped 14th December 2007.

3. 3

   Condition 3

   The building shall be used either for permanent retail (Use Class 1) or for café purposes (Use Class 3). The café use must be taken up within 4 years of the date of this notice in order for this use to remain valid after that time.

4. 4

   Condition 4

   The café use hereby permitted shall not be open to customers outside 07.30-22.00 hours on Monday to Saturdays. The café use hereby permitted shall not be open to customers on Sundays and Bank Holidays outside 09.30-19.00 hours.

5. 5

   Condition 5

   Before the café use hereby permitted is opened for business, plans for an odour extraction system shall be submitted to and approved by the Planning Authority (in the form of a planning application), and the approved system shall be constructed and operational to the satisfaction of the Planning Authority.

Planning History (4)

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