25 November 2011 · Director of Planning and Building Control (delegated powers)
Notus Lodge, Ballaquaggan Farm, Douglas Road, Ballasalla, Isle Of Man, IM9 3ad
The proposal involves building an agricultural storage barn for machinery like a tractor, rotavator, digger, cherry picker and trailers, plus hardstanding, on an unkept field parcel 65m southwest of the existing dormer bungalow 'The Lodge' and 32m from an existing container workshop.
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The officer noted the proposal is 'finely balanced' as the site is not zoned for development and lacks strict agricultural justification (no full-time farm holding), but accepted the need for storing …
General Policy 3
Prohibits development outside zoned areas except essential agriculture/forestry buildings (criterion f). Officer applied to machinery storage for land upkeep despite no full farm, as equipment maintains fields/tracks/trees; need demonstrated by listing 7 items and workshop limitations.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside unless overriding need with no alternative. Proposal accepted as storage need outweighs protection due to existing open machinery and screening preventing adverse effect.
Environment Policy 2
Prioritises landscape character in AHLV unless no harm or essential location. No harm from public views due to substantial hedgerows/trees; even without road screening, site landscaping suffices.
Environment Policy 15
Requires agricultural need, close siting to buildings, sympathetic scale/form/materials, no residential impact. Need proven; best site uses existing enclosure (not open field); 18x9x6m barn appropriate, olive green sheeting, 32m from workshop; no amenity harm.
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Approved plans
This approval relates to the erection of a storage barn and hardstanding as proposed in the submitted documents and drawings TT/10/7/08/4A received on 28th September, 2011 and 26/6/11.1 and the landscaping scheme both received on 29th June 2011.
Agricultural use only
The building must be used only for agricultural purposes. No commercial activity is hereby approved.
Materials - dark green
All external finishes (elevations, doors and the roof) are to be finished in a dark green/olive green colour and retained thereafter.
Removal if redundant
In the event of the barn erected under this approval is no longer used for the permitted purpose it must be removed from site immediately and all associated infrastructure removed from the site within 3 months and the land restored back to its original form.
No external storage
The approval hereby given allows for the storage of agricultural vehicles only within the approved barn. There must be no storage and/or maintaining of any machinery of any type outside the barn hereby approved.
Landscaping implementation
All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development or the occupation of the dwellings, whichever is the sooner. Any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed, or become seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species.
Do not oppose has no adverse traffic management, parking or road safety implications
Malew Parish Commissioners initially objected to application 11/00880/B due to discrepancies between aerial photos and plans showing existing agricultural buildings, but later indicated they would withdraw the objection if confirmed as non-permanent structures requiring no permission; Highways Division had no objection.
Key concern: existing agricultural buildings shown on aerial photograph but not on submitted plans
Malew Parish Commissioners
ObjectionThey object to this Planning Application, as there already appears to be several agricultural buildings shown on the aerial photograph, but not on the submitted plans.; The Commissioners objection was based on that there appeared to already be an agricultural building on the site, that was only visible on the photograph and not the site location plan.; If there is no permission required for the existing, I can't see that the Commissioners would have a problem with the proposed application.
Malew Parish Commissioners
Conditional No ObjectionMr Cadwaller advised that the existing barn is too low to allow some of the plant easy access.; Mr Cadwaller said that as it was not a permanent building, as it is just containers with metal sheets covering, it did not require permission.; As you have visited the site, do you concur with that.; If there is no permission required for the existing, I can't see that the Commissioners would have a problem with the proposed application.
Conditions requested: confirmation that the existing barn is non-permanent (containers with metal sheets covering) and does not require permission
Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not oppose has no adverse traffic management, parking or road safety implications
