Local Government Board: Planning Applications This collection contains applications for permission to develop land or property submitted to the Isle of Man Local Government Board between 1921 and 1932. The planning applications generally contain two kinds of records: 1. Plans for the structure proposed to be built or altered; 2. Letters from the architect or builder to the Local Government Board, submitting the plan and listing the construction materials to be used. The plans are hand drawn and some are coloured with watercolours. They are sometimes 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 the application 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 that the application was submitted, inspected and approved or not. Records of planning applications submitted to the Isle of Man Development Board from 1936 onwards are also held by the Isle of Man Public Record Office. These include an incomplete sequence of planning applications, along with indexes and related records catalogued as S89 (planning application registers), S90 (planning application index maps), S92 (Planning Committee minutes), S93 (Special Planning Committee draft minutes), S94 (Interim Development Order permits), S95 (microfilms of some planning applications) and S96 (Special Planning Appeals Committee minutes). 1921-1932