An application (21/00085/GB) has been made by developer Hartford Homes for the demolition and redevelopment of the former Bay Queen Hotel in Port St Mary.

The new development will include 23 apartments [including balconies], a cafe, a spa/wellness centre and a gym.

These luxury apartments will consist of two-, three- and four-bedroom layouts.

This new application represents a number of amendments to proposals which were approved in 2019, mainly affecting the front section of the building and not its overall design.

The original planning application for the demolition of the building and the construction of 45 apartments was made in 2018, a number which has since been reduced.

Plans for a stand-alone restaurant have also been dropped, in favour of a ’flexible’ ground floor space which could be used as a spa/wellness centre with aforementioned attached cafe.

There are also proposals for a front terrace to be used for outdoor seating with weather protection [a retractable roof canopy and glazed screens] for the cafe and spa, or for private patios for the apartments.

Hartford Homes stated that the commercial use of the ground floor will provide ’an added attraction for Port St Mary, and will benefit other businesses in the town’.

The new building will still include two tower features reminiscent of those of the original hotel, which has been derelict since it closed in 1994.

Hartford Homes purchased the building in 2007 for £4m.

Originally built in the 1920s, the Bay Queen Hotel was run by the Kelly family. In 2018, Betty Kelly described the Hartford Home plans as ’very well considered’.