Officer Planning Report Recommendation
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Officer's Report
The Site
The application site represents the curtilage of Grove Villa, Strang Road, Union Mills, Braddan. The property is semi detached and sits back from the road and is screened by a high hedge.
Planning Status
The application site is located within an area identified as being residential use by the Braddan Parish District Local Plan. The site is not within a Conservation Area. Planning Circular 1/98 provides guidance on the alteration and installation of replacement windows. Policy 7 of the Circular, which relates to properties which are not Registered and not located within Conservation Areas, states:
"In an individual, or group of buildings, whose principal elevation are readily visible from a public thoroughfare, if the original windows are in place, it may be possible to repair and renovate them. This can take place without permission, and will be encouraged by the Department. If repair is impracticable, or existing windows are not originals, the preference will be for replacement windows in the said principal elevations to have the same method of opening as the originals. Whatever the material used in their construction, the windows MUST HAVE the same or similar pattern and section of glazing bars and the same or similar frame sections as the original windows."
Planning History
There are no previous planning applications considered relevant in the assessment and determination of this application.
Representations
The Department of Transport Highways Division has not commented on this application. Braddan Parish Commissioners has no objection to this application. We have received no privately written representations in relation to this planning application.
The Proposal
This application seeks approval for the installation of replacement windows to the front elevation. The proposed windows would be PVC casements.
Assessment
The application site is screened by hedging and as such views from the road are reduced. The property is not within a Conservation Area and is not Registered. As such it is judged that as the proposed replacement windows replicate the glazing bar pattern of the original windows, the proposal is acceptable.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the application be permitted.
Party Status
It is considered that the following parties, who submitted comments, accord with the requirements of Planning Circular 1/06 and are therefore, afforded Interested Party Status:
Braddan Parish Commissioners The Department of Transport Highways Division
Recommendation
Recommended Decision: Permitted
Date of Recommendation: 19.08.2008
Conditions and Notes for Approval / Reasons and Notes for Refusal
C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions R : Reasons for refusal
- : Notes attached to refusals
C 1. The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
C 2. This approval relates to the plans and information J1582, Photograph and Completed checklist submitted and date stamped 18th June 2008.
I confirm that this decision accords with Government Circular No 44/05 (Delegation of Functions to Director of Planning and Building Control)
Decision Made : Permitted Date : Signed : M. I. McCauley
Director of Planning and Building Control
