51 minutes | Sunday, 14 June 2026
Douglas City Council appears to have a plan to solve housing issues in the city. The Council recently opened its flagship housing development the James Brown Apartments. The complex is made up of 48 two-bedroomed units, built to the latest environmental standards and fitted with air source heat pumps. So what is Douglas doing that allows it to deliver quality housing projects on time and on budget and are there lessons to learn for the Island’s other housing authorities? Douglas’s experience seem yet again to highlight the clunky, risk averse, delaying nature of government processes. Anyone out there up for delivering change?