A personal trainer has applied for planning permission (21/01343/C) to use his garage at number 2 Windsor Terrace in Douglas as a gym for clients.

Roger Davies plans to operate hours of business from 8am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday, with no more than five, one-hour sessions per day.

There would not be a ratio greater than 2:1 (one trainer to two clients), and 15 minutes would be allocated between sessions to ensure that there was always parking space.

Mr Davies has been personal training in the island since 2000.

In an accompanying planning statement, he said: ’with everything that has gone on in the past year [the pandemic] clients have continuously expressed interest to train in a more private environment as opposed to a busy gym’.

The single garage is one of those which serves the opposite properties on Windsor Terrace, and no alterations would be made.