Plans have been officially submitted for a holiday lodge development at Glen Truan golf course, Bride.

The planning application (17/00956/B) by Pure Leisure Group is for 55 luxury holiday lodges and the conversion and extention of existing farm buildings to create offices, restaurant and bar.

Its proposals, which we first reported last month, also includes relocating the 1st tee and 18th green, conversion of a barn to a pro-shop and changing rooms, entrance road passing bays, parking, installation of a foul waste treatment system and landscaping works.

John Morphet’s Pure Leisure Group has reached an agreement, subject to planning, to purchase and develop the Glen Truan golf course.

The £3.5m scheme for the 170-acre site features 55 five-star luxury log cabins together with a clubhouse with 60-seat restaurant and bar that will be open to the public.

Fifteen of the log cabins will be available for rent and let out for as little as two nights at a time while the others will be for sale, with a price tag of £175,000. The new owners will also be able to let out the cabins.

If planning consent is secured, the first of the holiday homes could be occupied in as little as six months’ time.

A second phase of development at Glen Truan could see the creation of a swimming pool and spa.

Mr Morphet, who lives at Bishopscourt, believes the plans will create an extra 350 bedspaces and the sale of the cabins alone should generate an additional £1.9m in VAT revenue for the Manx government.

His Pure Leisure company owns and operates holiday parks in the southern Lake District, Cambridgeshire fens and North Yorkshire coast. Overseas interests included Royal Westmoreland, a 750-acre estate with world class golf course in Barbados.

Mr Morphet said most of the visitors would be aged between 50 and 70 and would value the sea views, peace and tranquillity that Glen Truan offers. He said the development would be carried out sensitively, with environmental surveys carried out and low level lighting to ensure minimum impact on the adjoining Ayres nature reserve.