6 November 2012 · Delegated - Senior Planning Officer (Anthony Holmes)
Bonwick House, Lezayre Road, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM8 2lu
The application sought to vary condition 3 of planning permission PA 12/00224/B, which originally limited the converted and extended garage (used as an after school club) to 15:30-18:15 Monday to Friday.
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The officer judged the extended hours acceptable as they do not extend into anti-social times, allowing use from 8am while ending at the previously approved 18:15, thus not undermining 'the legitimate…
General Policy 2
GP2 permits development respecting site surroundings, not adversely affecting residential amenity, highway safety, traffic flows, or locality character, with safe access and parking. Officer applied it despite residential zoning conflict with established family centre use, finding no unacceptable amenity/highway impacts from extended hours. No wildlife, views, or other GP2 harms identified.
Variation of condition 3
This permission relates to the variation of condition 3 of planning application 12/00224/B. New condition 3: The approved converted and extended garage must be used only in association with the adjacent nursery building and as an after school club and may be used only between 0800hrs and 1815hrs Monday to Friday inclusive. For clarification, no approval is hereby granted to the use of the premises on Saturdays or Sundays or outside the times stated above.
recommend that this application be approved. Do not oppose has no traffic management, parking or road safety implications.
Highways Division raised no objection due to no traffic implications; Ramsey Town Commissioners had no objection but observed parking concerns at the junction; an adjacent occupier raised safety concerns about parking on the busy road.
Key concern: parking hazards on main bus route near school junction with children crossing
Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not oppose has no traffic management, parking or road safety implications
Ramsey Town Commissioners
No Objectionwhilst they had no objection to the proposal; The application should allow for vehicles to access and exit the site safely without the necessity to park on the adjacent roads.
Mrs R L Peel
Whilst we appreciate the good work done at the Bonwick Family center, we just wanted to mention the problems incurred with the lack of parking facilities
Conditions requested: Maybe the users of Bonwick could be advised not to park in the area as part of the contract when completing their application
