Andrew Martin says planning policy on replacing old Manx buildings is being applied inconsistently.
A more consistent approach to planning applications to replace old buildings on the Isle of Man is needed, a select committee has heard.
Dr Martin, who is a research associate in long-term ecology at the University of Oxford, was giving evidence in a personal capacity to a Tynwald committee looking at how to preserve or repurpose old buildings. But the officer for the south did not mention them at all, which meant "there was no assessment whatsoever of anything to do with historical merit of the buildings" in these cases, Dr Martin said.
Policy states they could be pulled down to make way for like-for-like rebuilds, but Dr Martin said "in a large amount" of cases that did not happen.
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