Temporary car parks in Douglas are to receive a facelift, to improve their appearance until work gets underway to develop the sites.

The gravel-surfaced parking spots are located in prominent locations in the capital, including Lord Street and Loch Promenade next to the RBS Building.

Recently criticism has been levelled at the unattractive nature of these areas, but until developers can be found there seems to be little prospect of the spaces being filled in.

Now, Douglas Development Manager Chris Pycroft says a solution has been found, which can be reused in the future on other, similar sites (play audio file):

Chris Pycroft was speaking to Stuart Peters on Talking Heads.