An application has been submitted (21/01435/B) to allow more time to implement plans to build a luxury home on the site of the former Howstrake holiday camp, near Groudle Glen in Onchan.

Planning permission was granted in 2019 for a luxury private home.

The client’s agent says the design plans, which are for a single house with ancillary office accommodation, are still being progressed.

A number of different designs for a modern style, luxury dwelling, designed to fit into the surrounding landscape, were proposed in the original application.

However, the development area would be as large as 3.6 hectares (36,000 sqm).

The pandemic was cited as one of the reasons why an extension is being requested, with concerns that should staff involved contract Covid-19, the November deadline for starting works could not have been met under the original application.

The original holiday camp, which was originally established in1897, was the first commercial one in the British Isles. It was later used as a World War One internment camp, and then as a Royal Navy training facility during the Second.