Ever fancied trying your hand at axe throwing?
If so, you might get your chance sooner than you think if plans for a new leisure facility are approved.
In the application it states that similar venues in the UK and United States have ’proved popular as an alternative night out to bars and restaurants’.
’The proposal provides a different kind of entertainment within Douglas and provides both a corporate and social opportunity slightly different to the norm,’ it says.
In the design proposal, it states: ’The proposed use is unique to the island in that it will house an axe-throwing facility within a managed section of the building, with spectator points, and a secondary area for more traditional games such as pool and table tennis.’
There would also be seating areas and soft drinks and food would be sold.
The over-18s venue would feature 10 lanes in a cordoned off area, which would be charged at an hourly rate.
Customers would be ’vetted’ by management team ’to ensure safety is paramount at all times’.
The management team would be trained on the health and safety requirements and take a course ’on how to throw an axe at the targets and keep the score’.
The axes are ’specially made to enable safe use rather than off the shelf axes’.
In the application it says the building’s use as an industrial unit is impractical and outdated.
It adds: ’South Quay is developing with the introduction of offices and a residential land-use zone which further demonstrates the impracticality of the out-dated industrial unit proposed for redevelopment’.