SEVENTEEN industrial units could be built off Peel Road, on the outskirts of Douglas, if planners give their consent.
Gary Blackburn of Jojay Ltd, based at BCS House, in Peel Road, has applied (13/00386/B) for approval for the development.
The site is next to BCS House and at the rear of the Parkinson Ltd office building, in the former builders’ yard.
Two previous applications for industrial units on the site have been refused by planners.
In the application, it states the proposed development comprises 17 small industrial units in four blocks, which would either be for general industrial or storage and distribution purposes.
Vehicular and pedestrian access would be provided through an access road cul-de-sac which would meet Peel Road at a ‘simple priority junction’ in the vicinity of the existing access to the site, to the south-east of BCS House.
The proposed development has a gross floor area of 2,120 square metres with 43 dedicated parking spaces and a further six spaces, nearer to Peel Road, to be used by the occupants of BCS House.
In October 2011, planning permission (11/01365/B) was sought for 19 small light industrial units, all with mezzanine floors. It provided a gross floor area of 1,997 square metres and net floor area of 1,900 square metres.
It incorporated 38 parking spaces in the vicinity of the units and 17 for BCS House.
Planners refused the bid because the number of parking spaces was less than that recommended in the Strategic Plan – for light industrial development, it recommends one space for every 30 square metres of net floor area.
Then, in August 2012, a planning inquiry was held into a bid (12/00413/B) for 19 units with a gross floor area of 43 2,113 square metres, and 43 parking spaces, including 10 in ‘tandem layout’, after residents objected to its approval.
This time, it was refused because ‘the buildings at Ballafletcher Cottage would severely obstruct access on one side of the access’.
A transport assessment by Bryan G. Hall included in the current bid says traffic likely to be generated could be ‘safely and conveniently accommodated on both the proposed junction of the access road with Peel Road and on Peel Road, to both the north-west and south-east of the proposed junction’.
And it says the number of parking spaces ‘corresponds with the number recommended in the Strategic Plan’.