DEC Officer Report
PLANNING OFFICER REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
Application No.: 22/00392/MCH Applicant: Ameya Ltd Proposal: Minor change application to PA 19/00719/B requesting the alteration to approved flue Site Address: Mona Cottage Marathon Terrace Queens Promenade Douglas Isle Of Man IM2 4NH Planning Officer: Miss Lucy Kinrade Expected Decision Level: Officer Delegation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 26.04.2022
Conditions and Notes for Approval
C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions N 1. Change to position and layout of flue considered minor. Plans/Drawings/Information;
This approval relates to drawing number 02 Rev A and 8 pages of documents from PA 19/00719/B all date received 29/03/2022, and drawing number 01 Rev A and covering email both date received 26/04/2022.
_______________________________________________________________ Interested Person Status – Additional Persons
None _____________________________________________________________________________
Officer’s Report
1.0 INTRODUCTION - 1.1 The following application is to be assessed against the criteria set out in Part 3 - Minor Changes Applications of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 specifically Articles 21, 22, 23 and 24. - 1.2 The application seeks only for a Minor Change (MCH) relating to the position of a flue.
1.3 Although submitted drawings appear to show floor plan details of a later 21/01349/B approval and appear to show changes to external windows at the rear compared with the original 2019 application and the later 2021 approval, these changes are not to be considered as part of this MCH. - 1.4 The following assessment for the MCH if for the flue only as requested in the application form.
- 2.0 BASIS OF APPLICATION
- 21(1) This is the only minor changes application that has been made in respect of any particular grant of planning approval.
- PASS - relates to 19/00719/B
- 21(2)(a) The Minor Change Application relates to the grant of planning approval in respect of a building
- - PASS - relates to Mona Cottage, Marathon Terrace, Queens Promenade, Douglas.
- 21(2)(b) The application specifies what minor changes are being sought
- - PASS - the application form outlines what minor change is being sort and is summarised as; An amendment to flue on north-west elevation.
- 21(2)(b) The application specifies why the applicant considers the minor changes to be of a minor nature
- PASS - provided in email dated 26/04/2022.
- 21(2)(c)(i) The Minor Change Application does not increase the number of dwellings or buildings for which planning approval has been granted
- - PASS - relates to flue only.
- 21(2)(c)(ii)The Minor Change Application does not increase the net external footprint of a building for which planning approval has been granted
- 21(2)(c)(iii) The Minor Change Application does not alter the site for which planning approval has been granted and which was defined by a red line on the site location map by changing that line
- PASS - modification to red line received in email 26/04/2022.
- 21(2)(c)(iv) The Minor Change Application does not make material changes to the vehicular access arrangements for which planning approval has been granted
- PASS - relates to flue only
- 21(2)(c)(v) The Minor Change Application does not alter the conditions (if any) which have been imposed
- 21(2)(d)The Minor Change Application is not be made where the parent approval is less than 21 days old, subject to an undetermined appeal or has expired
- PASS - original application approved 7th Nov 2019.
- 3.0 APPLICATION CONTENT
- 22(3)(a) Application Form
- 22(3)(a&c) The information in Schedule 1 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 has been provided
- o Site location plan (with red line)
- o The planning approval that is the subject of the application
- o Explanation of changes being applied for and reasons why
- o drawings of the proposed minor changes with buildings and structures amended to indicate the changes
- o Flood risk assessment is not necessary in this case
- - PASS - provided 22(3)(b) Provision of other documents specified on form but not in Schedule 1
- - PASS - No other documents provided
- - PASS - Dealt with at submission
- 22(6) Such further info as Department may request prior to determination (has anything further been requested and provided?
- PASS - reasons why they consider changes to be minor and updated red line drawing was requested and provided by agent in email dated 26/04/2022
4.0 DETERMINATION
- 23(1)(a) The Minor Change does not significantly increase the size or scale of the development in question
- - PASS - Development remains for conversion of ground floor to restaurant and including the installation of a flue.
- 23(1)(b) The Minor Change does not significantly change the nature of the development in question
- - PASS - the development remains for conversion of existing ground floor and the reconfiguration of the ground floor apertures
- 23(1)(c) The Minor Change does not result in an approval which, at the time of approval, complied with a Development Plan, National Policy Directive or a Planning Policy Statement, ceasing to do so
- - PASS - no changes to policy since original approval
- 23(1)(d) The Minor Change does not result in new or increased adverse impacts on adjoining or neighbouring properties having a significant or disproportionate impact on the environment (irrespective of whether such impacts might be outweighed by other considerations)
- PASS - no new or increased adverse or disproportionate impacts on environment beyond nature of original development within the immediate streetscene or amenity context.
- 23(1)(e) The Minor Change is not more than minor and is not of a magnitude to warrant a new application
- - PASS - considered minor
- 23(1)(e)The Minor Change does not otherwise fundamentally change the basis on which the grant was originally made.
- PASS - basis of original approval remains unchanged
- 23(2) If it does not do any of the above, must then be considered. - is the application considered acceptable?
- 5.0 NOTICE OF DECISION
- 24(2)(a) Set out whether all or some of the changes are accepted
- - Change to position and layout of flue.
- 24(2)(b) Set out whether any elements are refused, the reasons for that.
- - N/A _____________________________________________________________________
I can confirm that this decision has been made by a Principal Planner in accordance with the authority afforded to that Officer by the appropriate DEFA Delegation and that in making this decision the Officer has agreed the recommendation in relation to who should be afforded Interested Person Status.
Decision Made : Permitted Date: 26.04.2022 Determining officer Signed : J SINGLETON Jason Singleton Principal Planner
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