A second public consultation is to be held next week before proposals for the first two phases of a housing development in Ballasalla are submitted to government planners.

Construction firm Dandara wants to build 282 homes in the area, including a mix of modern two-, three- and four-bedroom properties with single and two-storey homes.

Plans will also include a bypass road on the south-eastern side of the village.

The consultation event will take place on Thursday, December 13, at Malew Commissioners’ office at 4pm with Dandara architect Sue Cannell and planning director David Humphrey available to answer any questions.

The housing development will fund the link road.

The bypass has long been mooted, most recently in the 2013 Southern Area Plan, which concluded it would reduce congestion, improve journey times and create an area for mixed employment use.

If plans are approved, the road would divert traffic away from the village centre, starting with a roundabout at Glashen Hill on Douglas Road, through to Balthane Corner near the entrance to Balthane Industrial Estate, where an improved roundabout would be created. The road will be constructed to the latest UK highways standards and will be the first road to these standards in the Isle of Man.