Planning
The Big Grid Lives!
Permission was granted in August 2021 for a six floor building featuring shops and flats
A long silent building site in the heart of Douglas has sprung back into life.
Formerly the site of KFC and Griddles, the steel skeleton, dubbed the Big Grid, has been frozen in time for much of the last two years.
However, work appears to have started again on the site, with construction workers seen on it this afternoon and netting having been added to the underside of one of the lower floors.
Permission was given in December 2019 to demolish 42 to 50 Duke Street and further permission was granted in August 2021 replace it with a six floor building featuring shops and flats.
Last year DEFA Minister Clare Barber said that as work had begun on the site, it had an ‘unlimited time for the works to be completed’.
Gef previously tried to contact the company named on the planning application Thomson Hunter Associates, which acted as the agent for Duke Street Developments Limited, about the scheme, but never received a reply.
