Under current circumstances, planners aren’t able to ’imminently’ compile a report into Manx Utilities’ proposal for a facility at the Cairns site by the harbour.
At a recent virtual meeting, commissioners agreed to postpone consideration of the Manx Utilities proposal at this stage.
The local authority hopes it means it will be able to hold its meeting when it discusses the plans in public rather than online.
Commissioners chairman Jamie Smith told local democracy reporter Ewan Gawne: ’Our officers have been in close contact with the planning officer involved and he has given us an indication he is not about to make a decision.
’And he is happy for us, under the circumstances, to withhold our discussions and he will inform us if he is getting close to the point he does need to make a decision.
’Because of local feeling and a lot of interest in the application, we really would like to hold in public the meeting at which we discuss the plans.’
He added: ’If we have to do it as a video conference then there’s no public, so be it but it would be really nice to think that we have an opportunity for the public to hear.’
The plans have generated opposition in Laxey, with some calling for the plant to be built outside of the village centre.
It’s been designed to end the discharge of raw sewage into the bay and, if approved, is expected to cost several million pounds.
Manx Utilities submitted the application (20/00082/B) in February.
Sewage is currently held in a tank, built in 1912, before being pumped out to sea.
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