BADRA

Ballasalla and District Residents Association
Home
About BADRA
BADRA 2009 AGM
Annual Report 2008
Sept 2008 AGM Report
The Village Guardian
Meetings
Malew News
Reciprocal Health Dispute
High Court Report
Committee Members
Malew Commissioners
Neighbourhood Watch
Malew & Santon MHK
Ballasalla School
St Marys School Douglas
Clubs and Activites
The Abbey Church
The View from Clagh Vane
Malew In Pictures
Friends of Ballasalla
Law and Order
Local Information
Archived News Jan to June
Archived News Up to 2009
Can you Help?
Planning Applications
Refuse Collections, Recycling, and Incineration
Links
Donations
Airport Development
Heritage Homes
Bottom Ash to Turkeylands
Crossag Farm
Poachers Pocket
Offical BADRA Statement
Contact Us
Site Map
Southern Plan
Welcome to our website
 
This year we celebrate the Association’s 21st year since foundation, founded to protect and foster our Village ambience, amenities and values.  Our successes have been many, but too few have been either permanent or absolute. Indeed, the ‘Developers’ always come back and the Isle Of Man Government regularly breaks its promises.

 

Unhappily, being on the Douglas side of the Airport, we are a target for exploitation. At no time have we been a more desired area for development. At no time have we more needed to be STRONG, Ballasalla’s need is now even more urgent, because we are not only the number one target for ‘Development’, but also we have an airport which is expected to double in passenger numbers, with the consequent major exacerbation of our traffic problems.

 

At the same time we now have fewer remaining public open spaces to accommodate the much needed community amenities. Our need is greater than almost any other village. Others usually have a seashore, coast line or similar, we are boxed in by the Airport, Industrial Estate and private farmland.

 

If Government has it’s way Ballasalla will change for ever, not too mention the fact that with the planned construction at Crossag Farm and the destruction of Clagh Vane we shall be living within an enormous a building site for at least the next 5 years, add to that the construction traffic running through the village as access for the Airport Development for the next 4 years, the mind boggles at the thought.