Amended plans have been submitted for a multi-use social care facility for adults with learning difficulties on the Noble’s Hospital site.

The Department of Health and Social Care has applied (16/01252/B) for a day care facility, industrial training facility, garden centre as well as a cafe and retail unit at the Ballamona complex.

The development would involve two new builds - for the day centre and industrial training facility (Eastcliffe Resource Industrial Centre - ERIC), an extension to the farmhouse site and the creation of 70 car parking spaces and seven drop-off minibus spaces.

The day centre would replace Eastcliffe Resource Day Centre, in Victoria Road, Douglas.

In the design statement the DHSC says it would provide ’enhanced facilities to meet the future needs of the client users’.

It would feature a central multi-function space known as the ’activity hub’ as well as group activity rooms, shower rooms, store rooms and staff facilities in two wings.

The corridors would feature sensory zones to provide spaces of rest and inspiration.

Proposed opening hours are Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6.30pm with occasional evening functions.

The industrial centre would replace the existing centre on site.

It organises and delivers a range of work-based programmes run on a not for profit basis, including manufacturing goods using metalwork, woodwork and textiles.

Its proposed opening hours are Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6.30pm.

The garden centre would replace Greenfield Garden Centre in Glencrutchery Road, Douglas, and would provide service users with horticultural work experience, resulting in a chance to sell plants and produce on a not for profit basis.

It would include a greenhouse, polytunnels, raised planting beds, fish pond and chicken coop.

And Ballamona farmhouse would be refurbished and extended to provide a non-commercially operated cafe and retail facility.

The single-storey extension would house the cafe kitchen and store room as well as toilets.

An amended master site plan was submitted last week.

Braddan Commissioners has said that it has ’no objections’ to the planning application.