Mec Vannin, the Manx nationalist party, has objected to a proposal for a holiday development in Bride.

The party, which doesn’t fight elections, says the Glen Truan proposal would have a ’negative visual and environmental impact’ and is ’utterly incongruous’ with the area.

The party says the primary concern for its objection is damage and degradation of the unique landscape and environmental of the area, to the detriment of its natural beauty and wildlife.

So close to Ayres National Nature Reserve, any developments pose a threat to natural plants and animal life that flourish in this rare type of habitat.

Cristl Jerry, Mec Vannin’s secretary, said: ’Any development will not save a failed golf course.

’Glen Truan is an unsuitable site for any development but it is especially unsuitable for dozens of "log cabins" clustered together, completely out of keeping for that area and the Isle of Man.’

The area that the Pure Leisure Group wants to develop was a sand and gravel quarry until the 90s.

A public meeting about the proposal was held last Thursday in Bride Methodist Hall. See this week's Examiner for a report on that meeting - and the response of John Morphet of the Pure Leisure Group.