Proposals to convert a wartime wireless station into a unique home have been unanimously approved by the island’s planning committee.

Owner Jackie Brammall applied to convert the building in a field off Phildraw Road in Malew into a four-bedroomed house (25/91192/B).

The site was compulsory purchased from her grandfather by the Admiralty in 1944 to form part of a network of wartime wireless radio stations.

Her grandfather bought the land back in the early 1950s after it was transferred to the Airports Board.

Remaining largely in their original form, the cluster of buildings are currently in use for agricultural storage.

Under the proposals, the existing buildings will be retained and a single story extension added to the west of them to form a court yard.

All three buildings will be linked to provide the floor area for four bedrooms, two ensuite, with an open plan lounge, kitchen and dining area.

The existing wall and roof structure is to be removed and reinstated in a new steel frame with the cladding replicated.

Planning approval has recently been granted for the conversion of three Second World War bunkers in the island to residential accommodation.

Chris Penketh of architects Penketh-Millar said he strongly believed that buildings relating to the island’s wartime history should be retained.

He cited the example of the conversion of a wartime bunker at Dalby which he said had been ‘retained for future generations’ rather than left to fall into disrepair and be ‘lost for ever.’

Planning committee chairman Rob Callister said it was unique and the plans looked like something out of Grand Designs.

Committee member Matthew Warren said it was ‘very exciting if its goes through’ and joked that he would like a condition of the approval that he could go and see it when completed.

Colleague Adele Betteridge agreed, saying: ‘I love it’.