3 September 2010 · Planning Committee
Store, Loch Road, Port St Mary, Isle Of Man, IM9 5eb
The proposal involved converting a four-storey stone warehouse building, formerly the Hampson Box Factory, and adjacent garage into a single four-bedroom residential dwelling with parking on the ground floor and alongside.
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The officer assessed the proposal against the site's industrial/mixed-use designation under the 1982 Planning Scheme and draft Southern Area Plan, finding residential use permissible and compatible wi…
Isle of Man Planning Scheme (Development Plan) Order 1982
Site in industrial use area where residential is permissible if compatible with surroundings. Officer found proposal fits as surrounding uses are mostly residential and change improves over industrial.
draft Southern Area Plan
Identifies site as mixed use, building as of interest for Registration, and within potential Conservation Area. Residential permissible; proposal compatible without external changes, enhancing vitality.
Time limit
The use must be taken up within four years of the date of this notice in order for this approval to remain valid after that time.
Approved plans
This permission relates to the change of use of the building defined in the plans received on 2nd June, 2010 to a single unit of residential accommodation with car parking within the building and in the space alongside within the defined site.
no objection to change of use if stonework and character preserved; requests nesting sites for swifts; suggests using garage for parking due to scarcity
Port St Mary Commissioners, their Drainage Officer, Highways Division, and local residents raised objections or concerns regarding insufficient drawings, parking inadequacies, drainage uncertainties, privacy loss, and swift nesting, with Highways deferring pending additional plans.
Key concern: Insufficient and inaccurate drawings lacking elevations, layouts, and drainage details
Port St Mary Commissioners
ObjectionThe Commissioners wish to object to both applications for change of use for the following reasons; The Commissioners feel that no further consideration should be given to these applications until accurate and detailed drawings showing both existing and proposed elevations and layouts are received, including proposed drainage
Port St Mary Commissioners Drainage Officer
ObjectionUntil this property can be inspected and definitive drainage plans for this site can be provided, we would request that this application is refused
Conditions requested: this is moved into the surface water sewer within Lime Street, if this has not previously been done
Highways Division
Conditional No ObjectionDefer
Conditions requested: Additional plans required showing access from parking spaces onto the highway
Helen & Pauline Kinvig
ObjectionAs our property is directly opposite the warehouse, we feel that if the building was converted for residential use, we would lose a lot of our privacy due to the close proximity
Pat Raitt
Conditional No ObjectionWe do not object as long as the beautiful storework + character are preserved; please could it be made a condition that nesting sites be built into the upgrade of the building. This is not difficult, and the wildlife Trust would be able to provide information on how
Conditions requested: nesting sites be built into the upgrade of the building; the beautiful storework + character are preserved; if parking in the old garage could be part of the plan it would make sense
