Eight local authority flats could be built in Onchan if planners approve the application.
Onchan Commissioners have applied (16/00836/B) to redevelop the site of the former furniture shop in Marion Road.
The application is for two blocks of four flats, provided over two floors.
The two-bedroom, three- person flats would each have its own private entrance.
Onchan Commissioners’ deputy clerk Tim Craig told the Examiner the flats were needed to help address the waiting list for two-bedroom properties in the area.
‘It will make quite a sizeable dent in our housing list,’ he said.
‘It fits in with our strategy to develop small opportunities where we see them around the district.
‘We are running out of land zoned for development.
At present, there are 42 on the waiting list for that size of property.
Twelve car parking spaces are proposed, eight in the court off Marion Road that would be allocated using a permit system, and four off the rear access lane.
In the planning statement submitted as part of the application, it says: ‘Whilst this is below the two spaces per dwelling stated as the parked standard...The Strategic Plan allows consideration for a reduction of the requirement on previously developed sites.’
The buildings were recently demolished and the site cleared in preparation for its redevelopment.
The site is next to Marion Court on the northern boundary, an Onchan Commissioners housing development constructed about 10 years ago.
If approved, the local authority believes it would take around 12 months between the start of construction work and the first residents moving in.