The Isle of Man Green Party’s next meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 29, at 7pm in Castletown.

The meeting is being held at Craftworks Studio, Unit 3 in Qualtrough’s Timber Yard.

A party spokesman said: ’The location of Castletown for the meeting is fitting as it is only the latest greenfield site to be subject to a planning application, with plans to build 130 houses in fields at Malew Road.

’Battle lines have previously been drawn over green field housing developments at, among other areas, Camlork farm [Braddan], where there are plans to build 300 properties on the green belt.

’The government’s desire to facilitate the building of 5,000 new properties is based on predictions in the strategic plan that the population would be nearly 88,000 in 2016. In fact, as recorded in the census date of 2016, the population was just over 83,000.’