Work has restarted on the Duke Street development.

The plan remains to create office space, shops and new flats from the former KFC site to Fentons butchers in Douglas.

Duke Street Commercial Ltd has already demolished 42-50 Duke Street and is in the process of building a six-storey block. The steel skeleton has been in place for all six storeys of the building since December.

Work on this briefly stopped but Thomson Hunter Associates, of Kilmarnock in Scotland, has confirmed works have ’restarted’.

The planning application for this complex was first approved at appeal in 2019 and demolition began in May 2020.

Originally planned to have nine flats, a new application was put in July last year to bring the total to 20.

An underground car park was also discussed but did not go ahead.

The overall size and shape of the building will not change.