An application (20/00401/B) by Lazer Investments Ltd to covert office space on the first, second and third floors of 21 - 23 Castle Street Douglas, from office and retail space to provide 12 short-term and tourist apartments has been approved.

The planning committee approval came with several conditions attached, including that ’in any one year period the tourist accommodation hereby approved must be used only for individual lets not exceeding four weeks in duration’.

It added: ’For the avoidance of doubt, no approval is granted nor should be inferred by this approval for the use of the accommodation as a permanent dwelling.