Plans to redevelop a residential site at the southern end of Laxey promenade have been refused.

The application (17/00006/B) to government planners was submitted by Deborah Forster, who owns the site.

The plan was to demolish the homes, garage and outbuildings at Cliffside and End Cafe and replace them with four homes.

It was a renewal of a scheme (07/01201/B) for which planning approval expired in January 2013. That application was approved at appeal in January 2008.

But the latest application, submitted in January, has been refused.

In the decision notice, it states: ’Whilst planning approval was granted in 2008 for the same development, there is no information on the current condition of the slope to the rear, nor whether there have been any events which may have further de-stabilised the slope since the earlier decision.

’As such, there is nothing to demonstrate that the development as proposed could be implemented, nor any indication of how the required remediation and protection of the slope could be successfully undertaken and the environmental impact that could have.’

The bid was for three two-bedroom properties and one two-bedroom, all with balconies. There would also be off-site parking for eight vehicles.

But the planning committee described the density and height of the proposed development as being ’inappropriate in this prominent position where development is generally smaller and lower than that proposed’.

And they said the development’s density and height would result in ’inadequate levels of private amenity space for the occupants of the units and unsatisfactory outlook from some aspects of the units’.