Guidance on completing this form can be found on the ChurchCare website at http://www.churchcare.co.uk/churches/guidance-advice/statements-of-significance-need
This document must be accompanied by the Standard Information Form 1A
1. General information<br><br>The Parish has approx. 2,325 residents and is within the Isle of Man capital Douglas. Currently the Church is used two thirds of the year for various groups, social events, community outreach, lunches, Church groups as well as Sunday and special services throughout the year.
2. What do you need?<br><br>What the Church needs is to improve its profile and encourage people within both the local Parish community and further afield into the Church building. We want to raise awareness of the Church by taking advantage of its unique position within central Douglas.
3. The proposals<br><br>We are proposing to hang a flower tower from the lower part of the louvres on the bell tower to the ground. This will contain knitted flowers securely fastened to netting and then raised 20m to the tower and cascaded down to the ground level widening from 2m at the top to 4m at the base.
4. Why do you need it and why do you need it now?<br><br>This was a proposal from within the PCC that has worked well for other Churches in different Parishes in England to raise awareness of particular causes or their own Church.
5. What is the evidence for the need?<br><br>Discussions have taken place within the PCC over the recent years about highlighting the work of the Church and how to get this message across. We would like to see more use made of the Church building by the wider community and the flower tower would be a way of highlighting the building and encouraging people inside.
6. How is the proposal contributing to the need for environmental sustainability?<br><br>The flower tower will neither increase nor decrease the carbon footprint.
7. What other options to meet the need were considered, taking Point 6 and the impact identified in the Statement of Significance into account?<br><br>No other options were considered.
Copyright in submitted documents remains with their authors. Request removal
Source & Provenance
Official reference
23/00160/B
Source authority
Isle of Man Government Planning & Building Control
