Construction of a bridge that will carry a new bypass over the Steam Railway line is making good progress.

The bypass is being built as part of Dandara’s Reayrt Mie development at Ballasalla. It will be carried on a bridge over the Steam Railway line between Ballawoods and Ballahick.

A second phase of the development will see homes build on the seaward side of the line.

Dandara’s plan for 282 houses and a bypass between Douglas Road and the rear of Railway Terrace (19/00137/B) was given planning consent in August 2019. The approval was for the first two phases of the development of 135 and 147 homes respectively.

Planning consent was granted on the condition that work on the bypass would begin no later than the completion of the 75th house being completed - and no houses in phase two of the development are built until the new road is finished.