What was originally permission for 9 houses in Bembridge could end up as a 66-home development.
Thornwood Estates has applied to the Isle of Wight Council to build 57 more properties on a site on Steyne Road and Hillway Road.
Permission was granted in July last year for 9 houses, filling a gap on Steyne Road, and work is said to be set to commence on these shortly. Now, the scheme is proposing phase 2, building to the south of the approved housing, using the new access road to build a ‘sustainable site’ made up of 2, 3 and 4-bed homes.
The units would include 20 affordable 2-bed and 3-bed properties, with the remaining 37 market-priced housing.
The site has been included in the Isle of Wight Council’s draft Island Planning Strategy, which went out for consultation earlier this year and was allocated for a potential 80 houses.
In documents submitted on behalf of the applicants, agents BCM say as the site will only provide 66 houses in total, 14 fewer than allocated, it offered a more balanced solution.
As part of the development, a new access road would be added to Hillway Road, increasing pedestrian accessibility on footpaths to Steyne Park.
BCM says the scheme would have no negative impact on access, neighbouring amenity, trees, ecology, drainage and landscape and the sensitive design will avoid impact on the nearby listed buildings, Steyne House and Howgate Farm.
To view the application, 21/01884/FUL, you can visit the council’s planning portal. Comments can be submitted until 12th January 2022.
BCM says the scheme would have no negative impact on access, neighbouring amenity, trees, ecology, drainage and landscape and the sensitive design will avoid impact on the nearby listed buildings, Steyne House and Howgate Farm.
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Well, they would say that wouldn’t they – otherwise they would be admitting that it is a pointless development, that just adds to the congestion, pollution and pressure on the already creaking island infrastructure and environment
And those who live nearby, who may see property prices fall, or may have to contend with more cars, more unsuitable people and their numerous children ‘would say that’ wouldn’t they?
Suddenly people ‘care’ about a newt a bat or a plant they never even knew existed UNTIL the threat of Bembridge being overun with what the rest of us have to endure occurs.
I am sure the parish lengthsman can pull an old matteress out of the pond, or remove burnt out motor cycles from Steyne park as Bembridge joins the real world outside the once protected bubble.
How many of these so call affordable houses will end up being second homes for mainlanders
where I live in Binstead there is a fairly new development built in last 10 years on the former garage site
including a terrace of 5 houses out of which at least 3 are second homes that occupied for about 8 weeks a year
lets wait and see
Id rather them be second homes that the scrounging lowlifes. But obviously id rather them go to know oe but locals.
A total of 66 houses. 20 “affordable” what ever that means, but no social houses which the Island desperately needs.
I would probably support building more council houses if they actually went to working people, always taken up by unemployed benefits scroungers.
Sadly we have many of them to whom it is a lifestyle where everything is handed to them, it is time unemployed people were given work keeping the Island clean in return for their benefits and if they refuse to work the benefits stop.
We have to be very wary of these so called affordable housing schemes or scams.
For I personally know of one Bembridge resident who had such, and part of the agreement is that the owner, after buying their home at a large discount is supposed to sell it to an Islander, with the large discount attached, thus keeping the affordable status.
Yet the small print has a clause that so long as your home is up for sale for a certain period, once that time ends, you can sell to a non Islander for a larger sum.
So all he has done is refuse lower offfer from Islanders to then get the full price.
Expect more of the same stunt.
The affordable houses should be one and two bed….and only sold to ‘islanders’ with long residencey…
Martin, yes they should be, but greg is correct, for I too know of that person and the devil is hidden well away in the small print of these seemingly great ideas, to ease through planning, with Islanders wrongly thinking that these homes will only ever be sold to such for a low price.
Just be thankful that we have many influential people in Bembridge so will always dodge the likelyhood of having scores of social housing built. So called affordable housing, even if a scam is far more preferable imo.
Here we go again, just what is an affordable house, make the developers say what the price will be. If you have a large income, then anything is affordable!!
And yet again another piece of the giant concrete jungle jigsaw !!!!
Iow one postcode coming soon …
There is a proposed housing development in Wellow that has NO allocation for affordable houses. Reason? ‘Cos the mercurial interested parties have postulated a) there is no obligation to and b) there’s a stack load of profit to be made from building second homes for mainlanders.
How will this affect the flooding of the high street.