CARE HOME TO MODERN HOUSES – PLANS REVEALED FOR FORMER CARISBROOKE CARE HOME
A Carisbrooke care home, closed by the Care Quality Commission, has finally been sold and a plan is in to turn it into houses. Fairview House, on Clatterford Road, was shut down by the health watchdog 4 years ago, using...
Read moreDetailsCOUNCIL QUESTIONED OVER COMMITMENT TO TACKLE ISLAND’S POVERTY
The new Isle of Wight Council has been questioned on its commitment to tackling poverty, amid calls to help the most deprived wards. According to the government’s index of multiple deprivations 2019, 3 areas on the Isle of Wight were...
Read moreDetailsEAST COWES COUNCILLOR SLAMS COUNCIL OVER INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING POINT
The Isle of Wight Council has been slammed for installing an electric charging point in a residential area of East Cowes, taking away parking spaces, where there is already a ‘struggle’ to find one. In a letter to Adelaide Grove...
Read moreDetailsBUS PLAN APPROVED BUT TAXI FIRMS RAISE CONCERNS WITH LOCAL AUTHORITY
Improvements to the Island’s bus service will be looked for but not to the detriment of taxis - but taxi drivers say they are already seeing an impact with the loss of their rank due to the Ryde Interchange scheme....
Read moreDetailsWHAT AN ETON MESS! 150 OBJECTORS SAY NO TO COLLEGE’S PLANS FOR DONKEY FIELD
More than 150 objections to Eton College’s greenfield housing plans in Seaview have been submitted. Comments to the Isle of Wight Council on the application closed last week and objectors have been making their feelings known in droves. So far,...
Read moreDetails‘MASSIVELY DISRUPTIVE’ TRAFFIC LIGHT REPLACEMENT WORKS AT COPPINS BRIDGE RESCHEDULED
Work to replace traffic lights around Coppins Bridge has been pushed back to next year after complaints over a lack of consultation and fears it would disrupt the Christmas retail period in Newport. The scheme was set to start on...
Read moreDetailsHISTORIC CONVENANT MAY NOT BEFORE ENOUGH TO SAVE CHILLERTON AND ROOKLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL
A historic covenant, that it was hoped would save an Isle of Wight primary school threatened with closure, may not be the answer campaigners are hoping for, the Isle of Wight Council has said. The authority’s leading cabinet members have...
Read moreDetailsINDEPENDENT REVIEW AND LEGAL MEDIATION TO DETERMINE NEXT STEP IN FLOATING BRIDGE SAGA
An independent review and legal mediation will determine the next step in the long battle to sort out the Isle of Wight’s troubled Floating Bridge 6. It's been confirmed that after the review and mediation a report will go before...
Read moreDetailsRYDE INTERCHANGE GIVEN THE GO AHEAD – WORK TO BEGIN IN EARLY 2022
Controversial plans for the biggest change to Ryde Esplanade in decades were given the go-ahead at last night’s Isle of Wight Council meeting of leading cabinet members - despite only 4 councillors being present. Work on the Interchange is due...
Read moreDetailsCABINET MEETING TO PROCEED DESPITE A THIRD OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS BEING STRUCK BY COVID
The postponed Isle of Wight Council cabinet meeting is expected to go ahead this evening (Monday) despite 3 cabinet members — a third of all those on the committee — testing positive for COVID. The meeting was originally set to...
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