A planning application has been submitted for the site of the former Marine Biological Station at Port Erin breakwater.

Application 20/01467/REM has included plans for the erection of a building to provide ’exhibition space, retail, apartments and restaurant with associated parking spaces’.

The building was sold by the Department of Infrastructure in 2018 for £500,000 to property development company Delgatie Ltd, and it was then earmarked for development.

An agreement was also reached for the company to improve the appearance of land at the front of the property, which still belongs to the government.

The original building dates back to 1892, with a laboratory added in 1932 and a library, teaching laboratory and dive centre constructed in 1980.

The buildings have been unused since 2006 when Liverpool University vacated the site and they were then extensively damaged by fire in December 2016 when, on New Year’s Eve, a fire destroyed a large part of the southern development.

l In other planning news, there was an application submitted (20/01531/B) for the erection of 12 residential dwellings with associated infrastructure and landscaping to the rear of Bix House, Farmhill Lane, Douglas.

It comes after property developer Hartford Homes submitted an application (20/00824/B) in August last year for the same plot of land.

Planning approval has been given in principal (20/01507/A) for five detached dwellings and associated access at Conister on Main Road, Santon.

There has also been an application submitted (20/01552/B ) for the construction of six ’glamping’ huts and associated facilities at Little Gibdale Farm, St Mark’s, Ballasalla.