Marine biological building: Planning approved with 49 conditions

The development of the old marine laboratory building in Port Erin has been approved, but there are a number of conditions.

A total of 49 have been attached to the planning approval which would see apartments, an apart-hotel, a restaurant, retail and exhibition space added to the building.

The number of parking spaces would also be increased to 160.

Conditions to the approval of the development include not building over the approved height, to maintain the ‘character, appearance and the visual amenity of the area and the Raad Ny Foillan’.

It also stipulates that the apart-hotels can only be let from April to September.

Port Erin Village Commissioners supported the application in their February and May 2021 board meetings.

The former Port Erin Marine Laboratory was sold to Delagatie for £500,000 in August 2018.

The buildings have been empty since the marine laboratory was closed by Liverpool University in 2006.