16 May 2008 · Planning Committee
Field 133229, Mountain Road, Glen Auldyn, Ramsey, Isle Of Man, IM7 2ag
The site is an area of land north of the Mountain Road, currently used informally as a hardcore car park with post and wire fencing for TT races. The proposal involved low-level infilling to extend the car park by 5m to the north and 7m to the east, using the existing hardcore base material, restricted to TT/MGP marsha…
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The officer noted the site is currently used as a car park in association with TT races, forming a hardcore area with post and wire fencing.
General Policy 3
Complainant Andrew Jessopp raised GP3 as relevant, claiming the officer ignored Strategic Plan policies and that reference to GP3 would make approval difficult. The officer's report made no explicit reference to any policies despite the site's adjacency to High Landscape Value zoning.
Time limit
The development hereby permitted shall commence before the expiration of four years from the date of this notice.
Approved plans
This approval relates to the plans and information submitted as part of this application and date stamped 17th April 2008.
Do not Oppose
Lezayre Parish Commissioners refused the proposed car park application citing retrospective nature and perceived pre-approval; Highways Division had no objection; one member of public objected on planning policy grounds.
Key concern: retrospective application as work has already begun
Lezayre Parish Commissioners
ObjectionREFUSED 3:1 The Commissioners feel that this is a retrospect application as the work has already begun. The letter supplied with the application from the Department of Tourism & Leisure leaves the Commissioners in no doubt that this is a done deal! The Commissioners feel that applying for planning permission is just a formality.
Highways Division
No ObjectionDo not Oppose
Andrew Jessopp
ObjectionI am staggered to find that the DoTL appear to believe that they are a law unto themselves and can dispense with the niceties of planning permission for certain 'developments' when the mood takes them.; That the planners may have considered 'accommodating the DOTL's actions, by not taking planning enforcement action, to prevent any development or to stop development taking place prior to an application being determined, is equally disturbing.
