A company is applying for planning permission to use the old swimming pool on the Peel promenade as a site for summer tourist accommodation huts.

Located by the skate and BMX park, the commissioners-owned site would be filled with 45 cabins painted in various bright colours - designed to ’look like traditional beach huts’.

They would be open for business next year between May and September 2022.

Two different types are described in the planning application.

There is the ’junior deluxe cabin’ which would have two beds and a bathroom.

And then there is the smaller ’bespoke sleeper’ which would have one bed and a bathroom.

There would also be a marquee to provide communal facilities for the guests.

An accompanying planning statement, from Duke Events Ltd, says that Peel Commissioners have been consulted about the plans, with them being ’amenable to the site being used for an initial trial period of one year with any income generated being re-invested in the long-term improvement for this area’.

It also said that the commissioners had said the tennis courts on the site were ’underused’ outside of Wimbledon week, and that they are ’reviewing the future of the courts with a long term intention to improve them’.

However, it notes that the commissioners added that should a better tourism or leisure use be found for the site, then the courts could be moved to another part of the town.

Pictures to serve as evidence of the site’s ’lack of value’ were also submitted with the application, such as those showing how the skatepark had not been maintained and is currently partially fenced off.

Parking would be provided for by the approximately 54 parking spaces on the adjacent promenade, which the commissioners advised are ’rarely’ used.

The last time planning permission was granted in principle for the site was for a hotel complex (05/1277/A) in 2006, but this was never implemented. The new application is under (21/01537/B)