Property developers Haven Homes have applied for planning permission (21/00832/B) to build six residential houses in a field at Spaldrick, Port Erin.

The site, bordered by Rowany Golf Club and Spaldrick promenade, has never been developed.

It is neighboured on the north by the housing development which is accessed via Spaldrick Avenue.

The plans are for two six-bedroom houses (one of which would be three-storey and include a swimming pool and four-car garage) and four four-bedroom houses.

The largest plot is 1,480 square metres, and the smallest is 410 square metres.

The development would also include the construction of garden retaining walls, and widening work to existing road access onto the promenade.

Haven Homes says that the smallest two houses have been located closest to the highway in order to minimise visual impact.

The accompanying planning statement also explains that the design of the modern development will not ’directly reference any particular era of Port Erin’s past’ (such as its Victorian heritage) but rather ’allude to both the general character of buildings found in the wider context of Port Erin and the established grain of nearby development’.

No important ecological habitat has been identified on the site, and dense scrub along the south boundary will be retained.

Numerous planning applications to build on the site have been refused in the past.

These included a proposal for residential dwellings, and three different proposals for hotels - the last of which was in 2003.

Haven Homes points out that these were all made under the 1990 Port Erin Local Plan, which has since been superseded by the Area Plan for the South.