The owners of the Villiers Square site on Douglas Promenade, the Tevir Group, have submitted plans to improve the area.

The group, which bought the site last year along with the Castle Mona and the former Zurich building on Athol Street, is seeking to improve the appearance of the dilapidated site and make it capable of hosting community events.

Its plans state that it would seek to add cladding to the existing hoardings, repair and repositioning seating as well as installing additional seating, planting, bin stores and non-illuminated signage.

The group says it intends to convert the existing water feature in the square to a flower bed, which could also be done on the surrounding border of the site to give it a ’green edge’.

A large part of the application focuses on the site’s potential to host community events.

The Tevir Group said that it wants to play a role in the ’Wallabies Gone Wild’ event, run by the hospice, which is due to begin in the coming weeks.

This, its application stated, would include one of the wallabies being placed on its property, with a display board offering more information on the event and the work of Hospice Isle of Man.

However, the hoardings that surround the site and face out onto the seafront seem likely to remain, with the application saying they will be painted black and used to display signage.

This included the plans for the wallabies event, but also Peter Jones’ designs for the advertising of the Department for Enterprise’s new TT website which would be temporarily fixed to the road facing side of the hoardings.

The application stated the adverts would ’help to tidy and address the appearance of the wider site’.