Strategic Plan Preliminary Publicity 2025

Closes 27 Oct 2025

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Paper 4: Rural Communities and the Countryside (please note, landscape is dealt with in paper 2 questions)

Paper 4 - Rural communities and the countryside: Provides an overview of what the Strategic Plan review seeks to achieve taking into consideration of the feedback received during the 2023 consultation.

Please refer to the below document for supporting background information.

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1. Do you support the removal of agricultural workers’ dwellings from the list of rural exceptions listed in General Policy 3?
2. Do you think any changes are needed to the definition for previously developed land, as set out on page 23?
3. Would you support a policy provision to allow new tourism accommodation in the countryside whether serviced or non-serviced accommodation?
4. Should there be exceptions for other development types in the countryside?
5. Would you support a more restricted use of the rural exception rule for replacement dwellings (General Policy 3(d)) – to retain examples of Manx vernacular architecture?
6. Do you have any examples of what should be included in the definition for ‘rural industries’?
7. When considering General Policy 3 (g) – and the reference to ‘overriding national need’ – do you have any comments on whether this should be defined?
8. Do you support the inclusion of a new rural exception rule which would look to support the principle of renewable energy production such as on-shore wind farms and solar power?
9. If you would like to make any other comments on matters covered in Paper 4: Rural Communities and the Countryside, please include them in the box below.