Retrospective planning permission is being sought for the site of a former reservoir in Sandown which is being turned into a private garden. The former Sandown Reservoir, near to The Heights, was sold by the Isle of Wight Council last...

A Bembridge Parish councillor - and owner of a pub in the village - has stood down after threats to ‘burn his business down’. Jay Chapman, the publican of the Old Village Inn on Bembridge High Street, wrote to the...

Talks to reach a financial settlement over the troubled Floating Bridge have run aground. A year after it was first mentioned, the Isle of Wight Council has undertaken legal mediation with those who built and designed the Floating Bridge 6...

National gas company SGN has explained why it cleared vegetation on the Isle of Wight coast – but has failed to acknowledge it was protected and shouldn’t have been touched without permission. Last week Islanders were shocked when work on...

Plans for a third vehicle ferry service on the Isle of Wight seem to have vanished.  The idea of a new community ferry service operating on the Island was first made public in October last year. The Isle of Wight...

Councillor Geoff Brodie Complaints about the conduct of Isle of Wight Council chairman, Councillor Geoff Brodie, are said to have been submitted to the authority in the wake of last week’s explosive meeting of the full council. Although it is...

Plans to ‘secure the future’ of one of the Island’s exclusive holiday clubs in the West Wight have been put forward — including 26 homes. Following the impact of the COVID pandemic on the West Bay Club in Yarmouth, proposals...

How to behave as a councillor determining tricky planning applications is to be reviewed by the Isle of Wight Council. Some members suggested the review of protocols was only being done because people did not get the results they wanted...

Islanders will have just 2 weeks to object to 'significant' rises in local taxi fares, but if no objections are made then the changes will come into force on 1st May. The Isle of Wight Council’s licensing committee this week...

Rows at an Isle of Wight Council meeting on Tuesday night led 1 member to compare the situation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with security having to escort 2 other members out of the chamber. At the authority’s planning...