17 January 2013 · Planning Committee
Mount Rule Farm, West Baldwin Road, Mount Rule, Douglas, Isle Of Man, IM4 4hs
The proposal involved demolishing a structurally unsafe stone barn and replacing it with a new two/three-storey building (15m wide x 7.4m deep x 8.8m ridge height) providing garaging, playroom, and guest bedrooms with ensuites, plus minor amendments to the approved replacement dwelling including a first floor extension…
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The officer accepted the principle of a substantially larger replacement dwelling based on prior approvals (up to 274-291% increase), noting the existing dwelling's poor form and roadside prominence, …
General Policy 3
Restricts development outside zoned areas except specific exceptions (e.g. rural dwelling replacement, agricultural worker housing, redundant rural building conversion); proposal's new barn building fails all exceptions as it is a new residential structure tantamount to additional dwelling, not conversion or replacement of existing dwelling.
Environment Policy 1
Protects countryside for its own sake; development not permitted unless overriding national need with no alternative; barn replacement causes adverse countryside harm with no justifying need.
Environment Policy 2
Prioritises landscape character protection in Areas of High Landscape or Coastal Value and Scenic Significance (AHLV); proposal fails as barn harms character/quality (scale/massing/design) and dwelling amendments intrude further; not essential location.
Housing Policy 4
New housing confined to towns/villages/sustainable extensions or countryside exceptions (agricultural, conversions, replacements); barn fails all exceptions as new dwelling equivalent.
Housing Policy 11
Permits rural building conversions to dwellings if redundant, structurally sound, architecturally/historically interesting, etc., but explicitly prohibits rebuilding/replacement even if identical; barn previously approved for conversion due to interest but now unsound - replacement loses character, not permitted.
Housing Policy 14
Replacement dwellings permitted if not substantially different in siting/size unless environmental gain; prior approvals established large scale acceptable but added first floor extension (291% increase vs prior 274%) creates excessive massing/visual intrusion despite traditional design/siting benefits.
no objection to the planning application - has no traffic management, parking or road safety implications
make no comment on the merits of the application but ask for an informative note be attached to any approval
Braddan Parish Commissioners had no objections to the application; Manx Electricity Authority requested contact for electricity supply discussions; Highways Division had no opposition as there were no traffic management, parking or road safety implications.
Braddan Parish Commissioners
No ObjectionThe Commissioners considered the planning applications below at their meeting on 13th December, and had no objections to the following Planning Applications:-; - PA12 01546 B - Mr and Mrs James Simpson - Demolition of existing barn and erection of a building to provide guest accommodation, garage, gym and amendments to PA11 01518 B - Ballacaroon Farm West Baldwin Road Mount Rule
Manx Electricity Authority
Conditional No ObjectionSee Note 2; Contact the M.E.A. Planning Department (Tel. 687781), to discuss the electricity supply for this application.
Conditions requested: Contact the M.E.A. Planning Department (Tel. 687781), to discuss the electricity supply for this application.
Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not oppose has no traffic management, parking or road safety implications
