As children on the Isle of Wight head back to school after a turbulent 18 months following the height of the Covid pandemic, schools will be focusing on ways for students to catch up while keeping everyone safe. Scotland saw...

The new Island Planning Strategy (IPS) will be a potent weapon for the Isle of Wight Council in the war against unwanted development. That is the message from the new lead councillor on housing as consultations on the IPS are...

The developer behind the new luxury homes at the former Atherfield Bay Holiday Camp has hit back at allegations the site has breached planning permission. Some residents have called the scheme an inappropriate overdevelopment and said ‘unacceptable, unauthorised changes’ have...

The Isle of Wight Council has put forward its new ‘planning bible’ to try to sort out the Island’s housing crisis. The draft Island Planning Strategy (IPS) paves the way for developers, the public and the planning authority for the next...

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...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s old school, Eton College, wants to build houses on a field in Seaview despite receiving a formal warning after it cut down a 150-year-old oak tree. In September last year, Seaview residents were in uproar after they saw...

It's full steam ahead for the new Wyld bar in Newport as its licence is granted. Determined today (Thursday) by a meeting of the Isle of Wight Council’s licensing sub-committee, the new nightlife hotspot in the centre of the town,...

A 4-house scheme on the main road into Cowes has been rejected by the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee as councillors feared it was an underdevelopment of the site. Outline plans had been submitted by Alan and Ian Jones...

Plans for 149 homes in Gunville were rejected last night (Tuesday) due to ‘inadequate’ access to the development and the wider impact on highways. Local developers DN Associates made the hybrid application, comprising outline plans for 113 houses and full...

Permissions for the time trial races in the south west of the Island to take place next April have not yet been granted. The permits from the Isle of Wight Council as highways authority and the Auto Cycle Union (ACU)...