Ryde Demolition’s site on St John’s Hill, from which the company has operated for around 40 years, could soon be flattened itself to make way for 9 new homes.
Neil Harrison of Ryde Demolition Ltd – also known as Harrison Contracting – has applied to the Isle of Wight Council to build 9 homes and create a new vehicle access from St John’s Avenue.
Proposals include 7x 3-bed houses and 2x 2-bed houses along with 16 car parking spaces, green landscaping and domestic gardens.
A Planning Statement drawn up by the town planning consultancy Phil Salmon Planning Ltd on behalf of the applicant says:
“It is clearly a positive project that seeks to provide much needed homes, matched with environmental enhancement, complying with the objectives of urban regeneration.
“The application site, Ryde Demolition, has been operated as a demolition yard and sales since the mid 1980s.
“The St Johns Hill site has become superfluous to its business.”
Ryde Demolition is set to consolidate its business at its other site at Smallbrook Lane.
Highways service provider Island Roads has not objected to the proposals but recommended a Construction Management Plan (CMP) be submitted to the council for approval.
A CMP is a key information document relating to a building project which can be referred to by the project team, statutory authorities and other stakeholders.
Island Roads said the CMP should include measures to stop material being deposited on the highway from site operations including installing and using wheel cleaning facilities for vehicles used in the development’s construction.
It added deposited material should be taken away as soon as ‘practicable’ by the site operator.
Construction and operative vehicles must also be parked, loaded, unloaded, circulated and turned within the site’s confines throughout the construction process.
These conditions were justified on the basis of ‘highway safety’ and to stop mud and dust accumulating on the highway.
A public consultation on the plans will end on 15th January and the council is due to make a decision on 30th January.
This is good to see. Development on brown field sites is the only sort that should be allowed on the Island at the moment. There are so many old industrial sites and unused/abandoned shops & hotels where housing can and should be built, lets hope this one is the first of many.
Brown envelope should do the trick, it usually
works.
Much needed homes? For who?
certainly not islanders,the way things are going there will be no jobs,so 2 nd homeowners then!