Isle of Man Public Record Office S56 Local Government Board: Planning Applications 1921-1932
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Isle of Man Public Record Office S56 Local Government Board: Planning Applications 1921-1932 1 Isle of Man Public Record Office S56 Local Government Board: Planning Applications 1921-1932 Alternative/previous reference numbers: C399 Accession number: A10 Extent: 5 boxes (564 envelopes) Creator: Local Government Board Description of series: The planning applications generally contain two kinds of records: 1. Plans for the structure proposed to be built or altered in drawing, blue or white paper; 2. Letters from the architect or builder submitting the plan and listing the construction materials to the Local Government Board. The plans are hand drawn and some are coloured with watercolours. They can be complemented by a block plan, which is a sketch, coloured or not, of the property location in the area. The block plan may be in a corner of the same sheet of the main plan. They may be signed or stamped by the architect and are typically marked approved or disapproved by the Local Government Board with a signature and date. The plans and letters are folded and enclosed in numbered envelopes in ascending order. The envelopes also contain a brief title identifying the type of plan, the requester and if it was approved or not. After plan 596, inclusive, the Local Government Board began adding a sticker to the back of the plans which was completed with the date the application was submitted, inspected and approved or not. Some plans in this series predate the timeframe of planning applications as an administrative function. Administrative History: Concern with the organisation and planning of the Isle of Man urbanisation started in the mid-19th century with the promulgation of the Local Government Act in 1886. This Act allowed the creation of elected local authorities whose goal was the creation, maintenance and planning of public services, for example water, sewers, transportation and roads. This law was amended and revised during the next decades until updated in 1916 in the form of The Local Government Consolidation Act. In Part IV - Government of Towns - Regulations of Streets and Buildings, Sections 217 and 218, the Act gives the legal context for the planning applications in this series, forbidding the construction 2 Isle of Man Public Record Office of any building without the submission of a plan to the Local Government Board. In 1936, The Town and Country Planning (Interim Development) Regulations, Section 3, detailed the various documents and information required to submit the proposed plans, describing what had been previously been done in the timeframe of this record series. Custodial History: The planning function was administered by the Local Government Board until its dissolution in 1986. The function was then transferred to the Department of Local Government and Environment (1986-2010), Department of Infrastructure (2010-2015) and is currently held by the Planning and Building Control Division in the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture. The applications in this series were first transferred to Manx National Heritage by the Local Government Board in the late 1970's or early 1980's. Manx National Heritage transferred them to the Public Record Office in 2005 to accompany the planning application series already stored at the Record Office. Arrangement of series: On arrival to the Local Government Board the plans and letters that constitute a 'planning application' where stored in standardised paper envelopes. The envelopes were marked with an ascending number and generally, complemented with a short description of the contents and outcome of the application. The item reference numbers used in this catalogue reflect the original numbering on the envelopes. Some plans were found to be missing from the series on transfer to the Record Office. Where plans no longer survive in the series, this has been indicated in the catalogue sequence. Access Status: Open Access conditions: Open Physical description: Envelope: Upright paper envelopes close to DL size. Paper: Tracing, blue-print, white and watercolour. Drawing tools: Bottled ink, pencil and watercolours. Generally, plans and letters are folded together. At the time of cataloguing, they were found attached to each other in the top right hand corner by a pin or a clip. These old fasteners were removed during the listing process and replaced by brass clips to assist preservation of the paper and preserve their physical order. Copyright: Copyright in plans submitted for planning application purposes will rest with the Architect. Crown copyright in planning and building control records created by the Local Government Board (duration - 125 years from the end of the calendar year of production). Related records at the Isle of Man Public Record Office: 3 Isle of Man Public Record Office Reference Record type Date range code Planning applications, index maps and registers Planning application index maps (Ordnance Survey County Series A34 and National Grid) – scanned versions available to view in the Public Record Office reading room 1936-1985 Planning application registers (31 volumes) A26/2 Planning applications (not a complete sequence) 1936-1983 A10, A26, A34 Planning applications (microfilm copies – not a complete sequence) A26/4, A34, 1936-1983 A10/3 Planning applications – Douglas No 1 and No 2 planning schemes (not a complete sequence) 1939-1986 A26/1 Planning applications – ‘miscellaneous hospitals and agriculture’ sequence 1939-1989 A26/1 Planning applications – ‘special planning’ sequence 1968-c1978 A26/1 Rolled plans, principally planning applications for Government projects (please ask a member of staff for further details) c1960-1983 A34 Douglas No 2 Ballakermeen and Ballabrooie Estates planning scheme 1939 A26/3 – 1 plan/map and 1 provisional planning order Planning application enquiries and committee minutes 07 Jan 1937- Planning – public enquiries minute book 22 Dec 1939 A34 28 Dec 1944- Planning Committee minutes 06 Feb 1984 A34 Planning – Special Planning Committee and Planning Appeals 10 Oct 1967- Committee minutes 30 Jun 1975 A34 Archivist Note: Catalogue created by Liliana Silva. Listing by Wiktoria Maliszak and Liliana Silva on 25 January 2017. 4 Isle of Man Public Record Office S56/1 Proposed drainage for Hand coloured plan. Envelope also marked 1 plan; 1 Nov 1921 Open Willaston Farm approved. Architect: Jos[eph] E. Teare, 46 Athol envelope Item Street. S56/2 Proposed new farmhouse, Hand coloured plans. Letter submitting the plans. 2 plans; 1 [Dec 1921] Open Ellerslie, Marown for Mr J. Envelope also marked approved. letter; 1 Item Cunningham envelope S56/3 Proposed drainage for Colby Hand coloured plan. Envelope also marked 1 plan; 1 Nov 1921 Open Glen Hotel 'Mannington's Limited' and 'Approved'. Architect: envelope Item Jos[eph] E. Teare, 46 Athol Street. S56/4 Guest cottage homes, Hand coloured drainage plan and block plan. 2 plans; 1 Nov 1921 Open Lezayre Envelope also marked 'Local Government Board'. envelope Item S56/5 Proposed plan of Mr Hand drawn blueprint plans. 2 plans; 1 [circa 1921] Open McCombe's property envelope Item regarding bake house, Port Erin S56/6 Proposed bungalow, Hand drawn plan. Envelope also marked Approved'. 1 plan; 1 Jun 1922 Open Hillberry Road, Onchan for Architect: Jos[eph] E. Teare, 46 Athol St[reet]. envelope Item Robert Brown S56/7 Proposed bungalow, near Hand drawn plan stamped 'Local Government Board 1 plan; 1 27 Nov 1922 Open Hillberry, Parish of Onchan Approved'. Envelope also marked approved. envelope Item for Mrs Spence, F. E. Farrell, 21 Farrant Street 5 Isle of Man Public Record Office S56/8 Proposed finishing sheds, St. Hand drawn plan. Envelope also marked approved. 1 plan; 1 Apr 1922 Open John's Moores Tynwald Mills Architect: Jos[eph] E. Teare, 46 Athol St[reet]. envelope Item S56/8A Proposed bungalows for Mr Pencil sketch plan. Architect: Ewart Crellin. 1 plan; 1 Oct 1921 Open John Clegg, Mooragh, envelope Item Ramsey S56/9 Application not found in the This application is not found in the sequence. Undated sequence Item S56/10 Proposed additions, Ellerslie Hand drawn blueprint. Marked approved 8 Aug 1 plan; 1 8 Aug 1922 Open House, Mr J. Cunningham, 1922. Envelope also marked approved. envelope Item Marown S56/11 Ellerslie water and drainage Hand coloured plan; 1 blueprint marked approved 8 2 plans 8 Aug 1922 Open for Mr Cunningham, Marown Aug 1922. Item S56/12 Proposed bungalow Pencil sketch plan in original Envelope also marked 1 plan; 1 1 Aug 1922 Open 'Corronagh' for T. Ludgate, approved. envelope Item Marown S56/13 Proposed bungalow Pencil sketch plan in original envelope. 1 plan; 1 [circa 1922] Open Ballagawne for Mr Turnbull, envelope Item Arbory S56/14 Proposed cottage for Mr Hand coloured plan. Letter submitting the plan. 1 plan; 1 May 1922-7 Open Humble, Colby, Arbory Architect: Jos[eph] E. Teare, 46 Athol Street. letter; 1 Aug 1922 Item envelope 6 Isle of Man Public Record Office S56/15 Proposed bungalow for Mr Hand drawn blueprint. Letter submitting the plan. 1 plan; 1 8 May 1922 Open Miller, Ballasalla Original envelope. letter; 1 Item envelope S56/16 Proposed bungalow for Mr Hand drawn plans with a specification note; 2 plans; 1 9 Aug 1922 Open R. S. Corlett, Milntown, Envelope also marked approved. Builder: H. K. item; 1 Item Lezayre Callow, Ramsey. envelope S56/17 Proposed bungalow for Mr Hand coloured plan. Envelope also marked 1 plan; 1 10 Aug 1922 Open Gourley, Ballajora, approved 10 Aug 1922. envelope Item Maughold S56/18 Proposed cottage for M. Hand coloured plans in original envelope. Architect: 2 plans; 1 Jun 1922 Open Corrin, Lezayre Road Ewart Crellin, E.C.E., Douglas & Ramsey. envelope Item S56/19 Proposed dwelling house for Hand drawn plan. Marked approved 8 Aug 1922. 1 plan; 1 8 Aug 1922 Open M. Craine, Glen Auldwyn, Envelope also marked approved. envelope Item Lezayre S56/20 Proposed garage of Hand coloured plan.