Hartford Homes has submitted plans to redevelop the former site of Ballagarey Nurseries, in Glen Vine.

The application (19/01396/B), lodged with planners over the last week, is for seven homes with garages and an access road at the site of the former nursery and an adjacent field in Greeba Avenue.

The homes would be built at the rear of the houses located just off Peel Road.

They would be built as two-storey houses with pitched roofs and natural stone, similar to those approved for a development at Ballabeg Grove.

All would include ’two off-road parking spaces and good sized gardens’.

The development would also include an access road to connect the site road with the approved site at Ballabeg Grove.

In the applcation, it said joining the two roads ’will provide vehicular access to the Ballabeg Grove properties when the A1 Peel Road is closed, for example during TT’.

It added: ’The connected site access roads will also provide a more direct pedestrian and cycle route from the existing houses in the Greeba Avenue area, down to Peel Road, with access from there to local services and public transport.’

As the site is only for seven houses, there is no requirement to provide either affordable housing or public open space.

To allow for the development, a number of trees will need to be removed. Ben Brooker from Manx Roots Ltd said the 40 new trees planned, together with additional hedgerow and shrub planting ’will mitigate the trees being lost’.

He added: ’Also, the native plant species being proposed will establish quickly, and provide mature tree cover to the area in a relatively short time period.’

Currently designated as agricultural grazing land and a brownfield site, the land had been proposed for 35 houses in the area plan for the east.

In his report into the area plan inquiry, chairman Michael Hurley recommended the site ’be washed over as part of a predominantly residential area’ to allow for development.