Patrick want answers over potential regulations breach
Tue, 22 Dec 2020
By Chris Cave - Local Democracy Reporter
Patrick commissioners have questioned whether financial regulations were breached in plans to deal with the Island’s waste. It relates to the demolition of Glenfaba House, which was purchased by government in 2017 as part of the Regional Sewage Treatment Strategy. Designs for a facility at the site have since been withdrawn by Manx Utilities following a recommendation from an independent planning inspector. The local authority says it wants to know whether due process was followed. Bought for £600,000, the historic old mansion house on Glenfaba Road was knocked down in April last year for the new treatment site in the west of the Island.
Plans for sewage treatment facility in Peel withdrawn
Tue, 22 Dec 2020
By Chris Cave - Local Democracy Reporter Government has been dealt another blow in its bid to deal with the Island’s waste, after plans for a sewage treatment works in Peel were withdrawn. An independent planning inspector recommended the designs for the Glenfaba Road facility be refused. Reasons included the ‘adverse visual impact’ and the effects on woodland and wildlife. Proposals for a similar site in Laxey were rejected in July. Patrick Commissioners had long been opposed to the plans and raised concerns at a three-day planning hearing in September.