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An error in Manx Utilities’ planning application for a new sewage plant in the west of the island meant it should never have gone to a public inquiry.
The island’s regional sewage treatment strategy has been thrown into disarray after a planning inspector recommended refusal of plans for a new works at Glenfaba House, south of Peel.
Manx Utilities has now withdrawn the application although it insists it is still committed to delivering its regional strategy of which a new treatment works for Peel is an ’integral part’.