Officer Planning Report and Recommendation

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Officer's Report

The Site

The application site represents the curtilage of the Market Hall, Market Hill, Douglas. The property is a single storey Victorian market building and is Registered Building number 120.

Planning Status

The site is located within an area identified as being Predominantly Shopping Use by the Douglas Local Plan 1998. The site is also identified as being within the North Quay Conservation Area.

Planning History

The following are deemed relevant to the assessment and determination of this Registered Building Consent:

08/01110/GB – Installation of replacement roller shutter doors (In association with 08/01111/CON) – Pending Consideration

Representations

Douglas Corporation have indicated no objection to this Registered Building Consent.

The Department of Transport Highways Division have indicated no objection to this Registered Building Consent.

We have received no privately written representations regarding this Registered Building Consent.

The Proposal

The application seeks Registered Building Consent for replacement of the existing 3 roller shutters to the north, east and south elevations. The proposed steel roller shutters are electrically operated and are similar in appearance and colour to the existing shutters.

Assessment

The existing roller shutters need to be replaced due to health and safety issues. The interior alterations to the Registered Building are very minimal and are judged to not detrimentally affect the character of the Registered Building.

The proposed roller shutters are judged to be an improvement on what currently exists and do not have a detrimental impact on the character or appearance of the Registered Building, surrounding properties or the Conservation Area.

Conservation Officer'S Supplementary Report:

The content of this application has been considered with particular consideration to Policy CA/2 SPECIAL PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS and POLICY RB/5 ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS as set out within Planning Policy Statement 1/01.

Proposed is the replacement of existing roller shutter doors with new to match. There is little to be of concern in this application. The existing roller shutter is not historically significant and its replacement will have little further impact on the character of the Registered Building or the North Quay Conservation Area within which it sits. I therefore correspondingly recommend approval of this application.

Recommendation

It is recommended that the Registered Building Consent 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:

• Douglas Corporation
• Department of Transport Highways Division

Recommendation

Recommended Decision: Permitted

Date of Recommendation: 20.08.2008

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 permission relates to the Registered Building Consent for replacement roller shutter doors as shown in drawings and information 01, 02, 03, shutter details and photographs x 5 submitted and date stamped 3rd 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 : 22/8/08

Signed : M. I. McCauley Director of Planning and Building Control