Plans have been submitted for 6 detached dwellings in Shanklin, on green space near to the cricket club, on Westhill Road.
A mixture of 2-bed bungalows, 3 and 4-bed houses with detached garages have been proposed for the site which is inside the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and provides a well-used footpath for locals, despite it being private land.
However, as part of the plans, the developer has said they are willing to make the footpath along the western boundary, which leads to Holme Copse and links to the Worsley Trail, a public right of way as well as planting nearly 400 native trees in the area.
In the design and access statement, attached as a planning document, agents say the proposal “will offer a modest development in a sustainable location, which is in keeping with the locality and will protect and enhance the character and context of the area, offering much-needed housing”.
You can see the plans (20/00991/FUL), and comment on them, via the Isle of Wight Council’s planning portal.
Stop building on all of our land you fucking morons, soon there will be nothing left of the island,it will just be one big shitty building block now fuck off with you shitty plans
Problem is John, it’s not OUR land is it. Private owners of green space on Isle of Wight are waiting for the offers. The only one who can stop them is the council, and they don’t sadly. One day there will be an anti-building political party in power on Isle of Wight but that day will probably come far too late.
Definitely not a brown site !!!!Just another urban sprawl onto green land
I saw this coming 2 years ago there. My advice if you live near land. Watch out for the Land/geomatics surveyors with there hard hats and a bit of kit on a tripod. Next thing the guys come and cut the hedges back so no one takes any notice of the habitat being destroyed. And the put your planing in. Hay presto. New homes.
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“will offer a modest development in a sustainable location, which is in keeping with the locality and will protect and enhance the character and context of the area,
In keeping with the locality which is within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
So how can building on it be classed as protecting and enhancing the character.
If the planning unit passes this then i do hope it gets called in.
It wouldn’t make any difference if it was called in.
Oversight in the council has no teeth and is, quite frankly, a joke.