Developer Dandara has applied for planning consent to built 47 more homes on the south west outskirts of Peel.

The proposed development would be built on agricultural grazing land south of Ballatessan Meadow and behind Castle View nursing home on Glenfaba Road (19/01155/B). Peel Golf Club’s practice ground borders the eastern boundary.

It includes a mix of four-bedroom detached Maple, Redwood and Beech homes, three-bedroom detached Hazel homes, three-bed semi-detached Keppel and Baldwin homes, and two-bedroom Birch terraces.

Provision will be made for 12 affordable housing units.

Dandara said the 5.68 acre site provides the opportunity to develop a ’discrete pocket of houses’, linked to recent neighbouring developments, so minimising the ’potential visual impact on the landscape’.

Access will be off Glenfaba Road.

The development includes an area of public open space on the western side, which includes a playground for younger children.

Existing hedgerows will be maintained and the existing boundary will be enhanced with the planting of native Manx species.

The government’s strategic plan states that 5,100 extra homes will be need to be built up to 2026 to meet forecast housing need, of which 770 would be in the west.

The site, which is currently owned by Robert Fargher, of Garey Glass, Ballatessan Meadow, has not been subject to previous planning applications.

Each home will have two allocated parking spaces, with some having garages as well.

Dandara’s application includes associated highways and drainage infrastructure.