Plans have been unveiled for 130 homes on Camp Road, in Freshwater — 8 years after a previous attempt for 8 homes was rejected.
Developers have gone back to the drawing board and brought forward a new scheme that they hope will address the housing shortage on the Island.
Previously plans for 8 dwellings in 2013 were refused by the Isle of Wight Council, and later by the Planning Inspectorate, due to insufficient information in planning documents and the piecemeal development approach proposed.
Developers then approached the Council in 2019 for pre-application advice proposing 170 homes. Although planning officers were in support of the 170-home scheme, they suggested decreasing the numbers and altering the layout.
The agricultural land is now allocated for at least 90 homes in the council’s Draft Island Planning Strategy. The outline application, however, is for 130 homes.
All detailed matters relating to the final scale, appearance, layout, access and landscaping of the site will be determined through later revised-matter applications. However, the housing split has been detailed, with 35% of the 130 homes (46) being affordable. The remaining 84 will be market housing and although the final mix will be determined at a later date, the site will feature 1 and 2-bed flats and 2, 3 and 4-bed houses.
Planning agent Andrew White Planning Consultancy has said the figures are in line with the housing need for the area as set out in the 2018 needs assessment.
In documents submitted in favour of the application, the agents say housing growth is expected and the scheme would carefully balance the objectives of sustaining Freshwater as a thriving village, while not overwhelming it. Vehicles would leave the site on Camp Road with a pedestrian access point linking it to Victoria Road, where bus stops and the village centre could be reached.
You can view the application, 21/01552/OUT, via the Isle of Wight Council’s planning portal. Comments can be made until 24th September.
Our poor garden isle is for sale to the highest bidder! Concrete jungle so a few get rich.
That whole proposed estate wouldn’t be enough to house the UK daily increase in population….
Plenty more homes needed. Now buffoon Johnson is housing the world. Sadly our own people just got shunted to the bottom of the pile.
So out of 130 homes only 46 are “affordable”….. I have a radical idea, don’t build any. Just leave the land for nature, why are the green party who are always so self righteous not complaining about many of these developments, I smell brown envelopes again here. Housing needs for the island, that’s crap.
I agree, or maybe if the houses are that essential only build the 46 “affordable”.
Of course, the developers wouldn’t make their millions of profit then….
I don’t understand why they think building 130 homes will be better than building the 8 that were refused a few years ago. The road situation hasn’t changed, the local infrastructure is even closer to meltdown and building houses still does not create jobs for those who live in them.
So when do we start creating jobs with better than minimum wage so people can get a mortgage? I’d rather see business premises than housing, just more breeding hutches paid for by those with a work ethic!
46 rabbit hutches for any islander that wish to stay on this ever growing concrete jungle the rest a big fat profit for the builders!!!!!!!
84 in total lot’s dosh for said builders……
168 more or less car’s on roads and at least the same patients for our Hospital wow and that’s only 1 site waiting for planning permission from out wonderful council….
Has anyone actually counted the number of locals that are looking for housing (affordable)
Perhaps before agreeing planning they could do a census on affordable housing?????
But maybe to busy agreeing to said plans mmmm…….
perhaps someone needs to have a word with the developers in person to make sure they see the error of their ways.
Who are you ? A mix between the equaliser and the a-team or just another key board warrior ?
Think houses built on the island should be for islanders full stop .That would sort everything .house prices etc, they would have to be affordable and no influx of the rich simples.Then prices would not be exploited like they are now