Developer favours luxury homes over flats

The former Grand Island Hotel in Ramsey could become an estate of luxury homes, if a planning application is successful.

The Northern Trust based in Lancashire, has applied for permission to build 11 large houses on the site, which was demolished in 2011.

The company says it’s moved away from the idea of building blocks of flats there after it was given permission for five apartment blocks in 2013.

You can find out more about the plans, and submit comments on them, via the government website gov.im