2 March 2007 · Delegated - Director of Planning and Building Control (M.I. McCauley)
Telecom, Track From Fistard Road To Tv Mast, Fistard, Port St Mary, Isle Of Man, IM9 5ay
The proposal involved adding three small equipment cabinets (electrical meter cabinet 1m x 0.3m x 1.2m, equipment cabinet 0.8m x 0.7m x 1.8m, power PSU 0.8m x 0.3m x 1.4m) and ancillary items like cabling within the fenced compound of an established 50m lattice mast site on Port St Mary Golf Club, 250m from nearest hom…
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The officer assessed the cabinets as standard design and size, located within the existing fenced compound with other equipment rooms and cabins associated with the 50m mast, resulting in minimal visu…
Infrastructure Policy 4 (Communications)
Requires balancing need for new communications systems against environmental impact, encouraging mast-sharing and removal of redundant infrastructure, with presumption against visually intrusive masts in sensitive landscapes. Officer found proposal compliant as it uses existing mast/compound without extension, supporting new operator on established transmitter site.
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Approved drawings
This permission relates to the installation of equipment cabinets and ancillary development as shown in drawing numbers 16636.004/1, 16636.005/1, 16636_28_100_M02_02, 16636_28_150_M02_02 date stamped 21st December 2006, Letter from National Grid Wireless dated 20th December 2006.
Redundancy removal
In the event of the equipment cabinets erected under this approval becoming redundant it must be taken down and removed from the site within 3 months of cessation of use.
Materials approval - colour coating
Within one month of the installation of the equipment cabinets hereby approved, they shall be colour coated in full accordance with details to be submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Any replacement or modification shall be colour coated to match within one month of being carried out.
no objections
Manx National Heritage refers to previous concerns about the scale of a new telecommunications network and urges a public inquiry for multiple applications including 06/02259/B, while Port St Mary Commissioners raise no objections to the proposal at Port St Mary Golf Club.
Key concern: scale of telecommunications network and need for public inquiry
Manx National Heritage
ObjectionThe Trustees of Manx National Heritage are deeply concerned at the scale of this scheme; we would strongly urge that these applications be ‘called-in’ for public inquiry; the impact of the network as a whole must be assessed
Port St Mary Commissioners
No ObjectionPort St Mary Commissioners considered the above Planning Application during their January Board Meeting to which they offered no objections
