Manx Development Corporation will begin redevelopment work on the Old Nurses’ Home on Westmoreland Road in Douglas next Tuesday, May 3, which means that the visitor car park beside it will close this Friday (April 29).

Visitors to both the Kensington Group Practice and the clinics held at the Community Health Centre will be able to use the car parking area to the immediate front of the Community Health Centre for up to two hours.

The designated disabled parking there will remain unchanged and available for use. Parking will also be available on Westmoreland Road and the surrounding streets which are two-hour disc zones patrolled by local parking wardens.

The car park closure will remain in place for at least two years.

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Planning permission is still pending for the redevelopment which would see the Old Nurses’ Home building conveted and extended to provide 37 apartments, cafe with takeaway and associated car, motorcycle and bicycle parking and landscaping.

The redevelopment includes, a modern glazed extension will be added to the roof of the five-storey building, which will house flats with views over Douglas Bay.

And the existing floors below it will incorporate one and two bedroom flats.

MCD, a government-owned body, said the recent decision to retain the building was due in part to its architectural merit.