Developers Wardsley Limited has submitted revised plans for 10 homes at Caines Yard in Ramsey.

The new application (20/00433/B) for 10 homes comes after planners rejected a previous one (18/00528/B) for 12 houses on the same site.

Wardsley’s latest application would see two terraces of houses built on the Shipyard Road site and would require the demolition of existing buildings.

The two terraces would include six houses built at the Shipyard Road end of the site and the other four at the boatyard end.

Numbers 1 to 6 would be built as two storey, two-bed houses and 7 to 10 would be two storey three-bed houses on a larger area witha variety of choice on the site and to ’reflect their location overlooking the boatyard and towards Sulby River’.

Between the two terraces, an access road, entering off Gibson Street will provide parking for 12 cars with pedestrian access provided from Marsden Terrace.

In the application, it is stated that the existing stone boundary walls to the Gibson Street properties, the boatyard and along the Marsden Terrace frontage are retained.

And the proposed houses are designed to be of ’traditional construction and of traditional finishes’ with slate effect roofs at a traditional pix, ’reflecting the dwellings in Gibson Street and Marsden Terrace’.

Under planning rules, the developer would be required to make 25% of its homes for affordable housing.

However, as with the previous application, it is seeking to enter into a Section 13 Agreement which allows this to be removed in favour of a commuted sum.

The application does make provision for open space, approximately 234 square metres. As the number of houses proposes is less than 20, provision for childrens’ play space can be considered off site.

Due to the proximity of the site to Mooragh Park, the developer is seeking agreement for a commuted sum for this as well.

In the previous application this was calculated to be £19,854.

The original plans were rejected with planners criticising the impact six of the proposed houses would have on the surrounding area.

The refusal notice stated: ’By virtue of the siting, scale, massing, bulk and design of the proposed dwellings on plots 7 to 12, the proposed housing development will have a significant and harmful impact on the character of the surrounding area.’