The government has made a second planning application to build an care home for older residents on the old Glenside site in Douglas.

In September its first set of plans for the proposed 60-bed scheme were rejected.

The Department of Health and Social Care has now revised its original application for ’Summerhill View’ (it overlooks Summerhill Glen) after the first submission was refused on the grounds of visibility along Victoria Road from the site, and vehicle access to it.

Subject to planning approval, the complex, on Victoria Road, will replace the ageing Reayrt ny Baie in Albert Terrace, Douglas. That building and facilities no longer meet modern standards.

Minister for Health and Social Care David Ashford MHK said: ’I am really pleased we have now addressed the concerns raised by the inspector at the previous planning application appeal - the residents and staff had their hopes and dreams dashed by the previous decision.’

He added: ’Reayrt ny Baie has served the community well, but the building and its facilities are dated. We want to make Summerhill View as much like people’s homes as possible. The residents and staff have been involved with the design and surroundings and look forward to making this their new home in the not too distant future.’

The application is available to view on the government’s planning website.

As usual the planning directorate invites views from the local authority and highways services at the Department of Infrastructure, while members of the public are welcome to submit comments.

The original planning application by the DHSC for the Glenside site was approved in March.

But that was overturned the following month after a neighbout argued that the site access to the proposed development was unsafe and did not comply with current safety standards.

And Environment Minister Geoffrey Boot accepted a recommendation that the appeal be allowed and the original planning consent be reversed.

Mr Boot concluded that visibility from the site access to the south along Victoria Road would be sub-standard and the line of the kerbs could result in refuse trucks or other large vehicles encroaching into the path of oncoming traffic when turning left, into or from the site.

The DHSC began started looking at developing a care home, day centre and extra-care sheltered housing on the site in 2015.

Its proposal was for 60 en-suite care bedrooms arranged into four ’communities’ each with their own lounge and dining room.

One of the ’communities’ would be used for residents with dementia and this could be split into smaller seven and eight bedrooms if required.

The care home would also accommodate a catering kitchen, laundry room, care staff room, manager’s office and facilities for a hairdresser.

Facilities associated with the day care centre, which would include therapy rooms with assisted bathroom and treatment room, a day centre, outreach centre, restaurant/caf�© and small cinema, would be shared with the residents of the care home.

The day care centre would have a separate entrance to the care home and would have 15 beds to accommodate up to 20 people.

The proposal also include the creation of a 36-space car park, two minibus spaces, drop off layby and an ambulance space.

There was outcry in 2012 when it was announced that the Glenside home was to be closed as part of a shake-up of adult social care services, which was to save government £3m and see more elderly people receiving care in their own homes.

The 59 residents were offered alternative accommodation. The old building was demolished in 2015.