Thursday, 15 July 2010
Commissioners Concerned About Potential Threat to Planning Controls
The Commissioners have expressed initial concern with the proposal that planning legislation be relaxed to allow large homes to be built in the countryside for those of ‘high value’. The Council of Ministers have been charged to investigate such measures in the wake of a decision made at the June sitting of Tynwald. At the July meeting of the Commissioners, Members referred to the protection currently provided to the rural landscape by the Isle of Man Strategic Plan. They registered concern that this protection might be compromised by inappropriate changes to legislation. Members resolved to fully debate the proposal at their August meeting.
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