DEC Officer Report

Application No.: 22/00563/B Applicant: Mr Gerry McGarvey Proposal: Demolish existing rear sun lounge and erection of replacement single storey extension. Site Address: Eaynin Dress 14 The Meadows Kirk Michael Isle Of Man IM6 1EX Planning Officer: Miss Lucy Kinrade Expected Decision Level: Officer Delegation Recommended Decision: Permitted Date of Recommendation: 06.07.2022

Conditions and Notes for Approval

C : Conditions for approval N : Notes attached to conditions C 1. The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.

Reason: To comply with Article 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019 and to avoid the accumulation of unimplemented planning approvals.

This application has been recommended for approval for the following reason. The application complies with General Policy 2 of the IOM Strategic Plan 2016 and with the general principles of the Residential Design Guidance 2021.

Plans/Drawings/Information; This approval relates to drawing numbers 01 and 04 both date received 09/05/2022. _______________________________________________________________ Interested Person Status – Additional Persons None _____________________________________________________________________________

Officer’s Report THE SITE

1.1 The site relates to an existing dwelling Eaynin Dress, 14 The Meadows, Kirk Michael, a detached dwelling situated with a larger residential estate in the centre of Kirk Michael. - 1.2 At the rear of the dwelling is an existing flat roof and fully glazed conservatory with rounded corners. PROPOSED

2.1 Approval is sought for the replacement of the rear flat roof conservatory with a slightly larger masonry extension finished with a hipped roof. PLANNING HISTORY - 3.1 There are no previous applications considered materially relevant to the assessment of the current proposal. PLANNING POLICY - 4.1 The application site sits within an area zoned for residential use on the Kirk Michael Local Plan and there is a general presumption in favour of residential development as set out in 8.12.1 of the IOM Strategic Plan 2016 so long as the works meet with the general standards towards acceptable development set out in General Policy 2. Most relevant in this case being parts b, c and g in ensuring no adverse visual or amenity impacts. Also relevant in the assessment is the recently released Residential Design Guidance 2021 which provides advice on residential development and how such visual and amenity impact may be assessed in terms of streetscene and neighbouring amenity.

REPRESENTATIONS Copies of representations received can be viewed on the Government's website. This report contains summaries only.

5.1 Kirk Michael Commissioners - no comments received as of 06/07/2022.

5.2 Department of Infrastructure Highway Services - no highways interest (22/05/2022). - 5.3 No comments received from neighbouring properties.

ASSESSMENT

6.1 The works are expected to have an overall negligible impact on the general quality and appearance of the existing house and the extension is not readily visible from any public view. It will see the introduction of a more appropriate hipped roof finished compared with the existing flat roof and would not be an inappropriate level of development. The proposed works would be unobjectionable and given the distance from the neighbours would not harm or adversely impact neighbouring amenity. CONCLUSION - 7.1 The proposed works would have an acceptable impact on the existing property and would not result in any unacceptable harm to the surrounding environment. The application accords with the tests of General Policy 2 of the Isle of Man Strategic Plan 2016 and the principles of the Residential Design Guidance 2021. INTERESTED PERSON STATUS - 8.1 By virtue of the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) Order 2019, the following persons are automatically interested persons:

• (a) the applicant (including an agent acting on their behalf);

• (b) any Government Department that has made written representations that the Department considers material;
• (c) the Highways Division of the Department of Infrastructure;
• (d) Manx National Heritage where it has made written representations that the Department considers material;
• (e) Manx Utilities where it has made written representations that the Department considers material;
• (f) the local authority in whose district the land the subject of the application is situated; and
• (g) a local authority adjoining the authority referred to in paragraph (f) where that adjoining authority has made written representations that the Department considers material. 8.2 The decision maker must determine:

• o whether any other comments from Government Departments (other than the Department of Infrastructure Highway Services Division) are material; and
• o whether there are other persons to those listed above who should be given Interested Person Status

I can confirm that this decision has been made by a Principal Planner in accordance with the authority afforded to that Officer by the appropriate DEFA Delegation and that in making this decision the Officer has agreed the recommendation in relation to who should be afforded Interested Person Status.

Decision Made : Permitted Date: 06.07.2022 Determining officer

Signed : A MORGAN Abigail Morgan Principal Planner

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