3 March 2005 · Planning Committee
Carmodil Beg Cottage, Glen Road, Ballaugh, Isle Of Man, IM7 5je
The proposal was for approval in principle to erect a detached dwelling on a parcel of land next to Carmodil Beg Studio on Glen Road in Ballaugh, an area of high landscape and scenic significance. The site is not zoned for residential development and lacks agricultural justification.
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The application site is within an area of high landscape and scenic significance but is neither zoned for residential development nor justified by appropriate agricultural need for the proposed dwelli…
Isle of Man Planning Scheme (Development Plan) Order 1982
This Order sets policies restricting development in unzoned rural areas, particularly those of high landscape and scenic significance. The officer assessed the site as unzoned for residential use with no agricultural justification, directly failing the policy test for new dwellings. No tension noted as policy is well-established.
Planning Circular 1/88 'Residential Development - Houses in the Countryside'
Circular controls residential development in countryside, requiring zoning or agricultural worker need. Proposal failed as site lacks both, in an area of scenic significance. Officer applied strictly per prior refusals.
No objection in principle subject to discussion on location prior to detailed application
No adverse traffic impacts subject to conditions on parking, sight lines, and turning facility
Society for the Preservation of the Manx Countryside and Environment, Ballaugh Parish Commissioners, and local residents objected to the application on rural policy, zoning, landscape, traffic, and precedent grounds; IoMWA requested a water supply condition; DOT Highways had no o…
Key concern: site outside village and not zoned residential per Ballaugh Sector Plan, contrary to Rural policy
Society for the Preservation of the Manx Countryside and Environment
ObjectionWe must maintain our Objections on Rural policy grounds.; The site was deemed to be outside the village and it is most certainly outside the substantial areas of land zoned ‘residential’ in Ballaugh in the Sector Plan
IoMWA
Conditional No ObjectionFor single connections to a water main (i.e. a single dwelling) the applicant should contact IoMWA Customer Services, tel. 69 59 49
Conditions requested: condition of planning be that the applicant must contact the Authority to ensure that a connection is obtained for water supply purposes, or an amendment to the existing supply under the terms of the Water Supply Byelaws
DOT Highways Division
Conditional No ObjectionNo adverse traffic impacts, subject to the imposition of the following conditions
Conditions requested: Parking arrangements on site shall meet the requirements of the Planning Committee after consultation with the highway authority.; The access, including the sight lines, shall meet the requirements of the Planning Committee after consultation with the highway authority.; The access drive arrangements shall comprise a turning feature to permit a motor car to turn round within the site, so that the vehicle can emerge from the site in forward gear.
DOT Drainage Division
Conditional No ObjectionNO OBJECTION In principle subject to
Conditions requested: The applicant must discuss the location of the proposed dwelling with the Department of Transport Drainage Division prior to any detailed planning application being submitted for this site.
Ballaugh Parish Commissioners
Objectionmy Commissioners have now considered the above proposed development, and are opposed to the proposal
