Change of use of part of commercial space to two residential units and residents gym

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓Reduction to commercial space and increase in residential units
• ✓Impact on any previous approvals or the local village
• ✓Affordable housing implications from the new residential units
• ✓Highway safety or parking implications related to the proposed gym and change of use
• ✓Site is the Bayqueen, Port St Mary, a complex building previously approved under 21/00085/GB
• ✓highways
• ✓parking
• ✓reduction to the commercial space and increase in residential units impacts on any previous approvals or on the local village
• ✓implications in terms of affordable housing as a result of new residential units
• ✓highway safety or parking implications as a result of the above and new gym

The proposal is a change of use of part of the Bayqueen Hotel at The Promenade, Port St Mary, to two residential units and a residents’ gym. The building is described as a complex site, with the Bayqueen most recently approved under 21/00085/GB. The application’s key considerations included the impact of reducing commercial space while increasing residential units on any previous approvals and on the local village. The assessment also included implications for affordable housing arising from the new residential units, and potential highway safety or parking implications linked to the above and the new gym. The formal decision determined that the application be approved.

The determining body decided to approve the application for a change of use of part of the Bayqueen to two residential units and a residents’ gym. The decision notice states it was determined to approve application Ref 25/90791/C. The officer report identifies considerations around impacts on previous approvals and the local village, affordable housing implications, and highway safety or parking implications connected to the proposed mix of residential use and a residents’ gym. The formal decision record lists 3 conditions.

Policies Assessed (2)

Conditions (3)

1. 1

   Condition 1

   The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice. Reason: To comply with Article 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.

2. 2

   Condition 2

   Prior to the occupation of the apartments hereby approved, the associated parking spaces (2 per apartment) shall be provided and thereafter shall be available for use for parking at all times. Reason: to provide sufficient car parking for each unit.

3. 3

   Condition 3

   Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 2019, the resident's gym hereby approved shall only be used as a gym and shall only be available for use by residents of the apartments, and shall not be used for any external or commercial use. Reason: The application has been assessed on this basis only, in the interest of amenity, highway safety and parking availability.

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