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NEIGHBOURS PERSPECTIVE: The extension is demolished. BELOW: Workers salvage roof tiles AND: End of an era as the former Peel Medical Centre is reduced to stone and rubble. PICTURES: D.J. and D.E. Brimfield.

Published on 20/02/2013 06:58

FORMER Peel Medical Centre in Derby Road, Peel, has been demolished.

Clearing of the bricks and rubble from the site followed the building coming down.

The Brimfields who live next door to the former medical centre took the opportunity to take a long series of photographs of its demolition.

Isle of Man Enterprises, which is Shoprite’s parent company, reached agreement with Department of Health to purchase the vacant ex-doctors’ surgery. The rationale of the purchase was to demolish the redundant building to create additional car parking space to cater for increased footfall at the enlarged Shoprite store in Derby Road.

Shoprite car park spaces will be increased from 122 to 155. It is anticipated the work will be done by the end of February.

The stone from the former surgery, which was once home to Peel Clothworkers School, is being donated by Shoprite to The Cathedral Quarter Trust, which is hoping to use it for its lychgate project at St German’s Cathedral.

The cathedral is intending to seek planning permission for a dramatic lychgate in the form of an upturned boat and a new bus station in Derby Road Peel. And those at the centre of the scheme hope the proposal will create a new central hub for the town.

Andrew Thomas, chief executive of Isle of Man Enterprises, recently said: ‘We are pleased to be embarking on our final stage of development in the Peel [Shoprite] store. Feedback we have received from local residents is that they are delighted with the newly-upgraded store.’

He added: ‘It was important to us that the stone from the demolished building will be used to benefit the Peel community.’

Shoprite opened its Peel operation in 1985 on the existing site, and the Peel sandstone from the demolished building that previously stood there was donated to help construct the town’s lifeboat station.

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