The government’s planning committee will next week meet to consider two separate bids to create car parks on South Quay in Douglas.

Quay Properties Ltd has asked for permission to demolish an existing industrial unit at 25 South Quay and create a 30-space temporary car park for four years.

The planning officer has recommended the application be refused on several grounds, including highway safety, limiting available employed land in the capital, and failing to match the zoning requirements set out in the Douglas Local Plan 1998.The officer says the proposal would also reduce the chance of a prominent brownfield site being redeveloped, which contradicts government policy.

Monday’s meeting will also look at a separate application from Marc Thompson to create 46 temporary car park spaces and three self-service car washing machines at a site on South Quay.

Issues with zoning, water pollution and the risk of hindering the development of a brownfield site have been cited as reasons for refusal by the planning officer, who has recommended the application be rejected.

Decisions on both the applications will be made by the committee at the meeting, which is held in public at the ground floor committee room in Murray House, Douglas.

You can view both the applications and officer’s reports online via the government’s website.