20 January 2026 · Delegated - Principal Planner (Chris Balmer)
Meadowside Cottage, Main Road, Greeba, Isle Of Man, IM4 2du
Meadowside Cottage is a traditional two-storey Manx vernacular dwelling on Main Road, Greeba, with a pitched tiled roof, chimneys, and Manx stone finish. The proposal includes a small 2.3m x 3.7m single-storey utility room extension to the rear kitchen extension, matching its height; replacement of the kitchen window w…
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The site is in unzoned countryside land of High Landscape Value and Scenic Significance, where General Policy 3 presumes against development unless fitting specific criteria, but the officer gave weig…
General Policy 2
GP2 provides general development control principles (a-n) applicable to unzoned land, addressing issues like design, scale, siting, and amenity. The officer assessed the rear extension, dormers, and alterations against these, finding them reasonable within the residential curtilage with no adverse impacts.
Housing Policy 15
HP15 allows extensions to traditionally styled countryside dwellings if they respect the property's proportion, form, and appearance, with emphasis on visual impact. The small rear extension matches the host extension's height, dormers are to the rear, and materials like natural slates enhance the vernacular, ensuring acceptability.
Environment Policy 1
EP1 protects the countryside for its own sake and restricts developments with adverse visual impact. Despite High Landscape Value designation, the rear-focused works have limited glimpsed visibility from the highway and would not harm the rural landscape or dwelling's setting.
General Policy 3
GP3 presumes against development on unzoned land unless fitting criteria (a-h); the proposal does not strictly fit but was assessed for reasonableness of scale/siting in the residential curtilage, balanced against HP15 and EP1.
Time limit
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.
