6 February 2026 · Delegated - Principal Planner (A MORGAN, Interim Director of Planning and Building Control)
Gourmet Mannin, Unit 17, Isle Of Man Food Park, Mill Road, Peel, Isle Of Man, IM5 1td
Gourmet Foods Limited applied for planning permission for a cold storage unit measuring 6m deep, 3.6m wide and 2.9m high, already in place in front of their industrial units in the Isle of Man Food Park, an area zoned for industrial use supporting food storage and production.
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The officer recommended approval because the cold storage unit provides essential space for the applicant's catering business which has outgrown its existing facilities in Units 17 and 18, and the use…
General Policy 2
Requires development to respect site and surroundings in siting, layout, scale, form, design; not adversely affect character, amenity, highways, parking, flooding. Officer assessed the unit's modest scale fits industrial character with similar structures, no amenity harm, parking acceptable temporarily with condition, complying overall.
Strategic Policy 4
Requires protection or enhancement of Registered Buildings, Conservation Areas. Officer found no harm to RB 111, RB 349 or Peel Conservation Area 60m away as unit is deep within Food Park with no visual link due to intervening structures.
Strategic Policy 7
Retains industrial-zoned land for industrial uses unless incompatible. Cold storage supports existing industrial catering business in designated area.
Business Policy 5
Permits industrial development or storage on industrial-zoned land. Proposal is storage compatible with food production emphasis.
Environment Policy 10
Requires flood risk assessment and mitigation where risk exists. Site in high flood risk; mitigation via note on business flood plan deemed sufficient given warnings, electrics height and portability, avoiding onerous condition.
Policy 6.7
Existing industrial land sufficient, no further needed. Proposal uses existing zoned land appropriately.
Policy 6.8
Discourages residential near industrial. No residential impact relevant here.
Temporary permission tied to applicant occupancy
The cold storage unit hereby permitted shall be for a limited period only, being for the time that Units 17 and 18 are occupied by Gourmet Food Limited. Upon the occupation of the premises by the applicant ceasing, the cold storage unit shall be removed from the site, and the land reinstated to its former condition within 28 days.
No objection subject to condition requiring removal of cold storage unit once applicant vacates site for parking and highway safety reasons.
No objection - the unit appears essential to the operation of this type of business.
No objection subject to conditions including business flood plan, though officer found condition onerous.
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Flood Risk Management Division issued a DNOC (Do not oppose subject to condition(s)) due to the site's location in fluvial and tidal flood risk zones.
Key concern: unit is in the fluvial and tidal flood
Department of Infrastructure (DOI) Flood Risk Management Division
Conditional No ObjectionDNOC; Suggest a business flood plan to be produced so they are prepared in the event of a flood. Currently the Met Office can give about 48Hrs notice of a tidal flood event. If possible the structure should be placed above 4.74mDO2 + 300 and all electrics are at a safe height.
Conditions requested: business flood plan to be produced so they are prepared in the event of a flood; structure should be placed above 4.74mDO2 + 300; all electrics are at a safe height
