Taxpayers on the Isle of Wight may have to foot a £6,000 bill for a failed bid for judicial review. The legal case against the Isle of Wight Council and applicants for housing and other facilities at Bembridge Harbour was...

Residents of central Newport are objecting to a new bar planned for the former Pizza Express site, which is set to bring live back into the town and create 30 jobs. As a result of the objections from neighbours, who...

Plans for nearly 150 homes on green fields in Gunville are a step closer — bridging the gap between already permitted developments. 2 applications — 1 for outline permission for 113 dwellings and the other for full permission for 36...

A crucial investor in Ryde has said more could be done to improve the proposed £10million transport interchange scheme. Historic England (HE), which has invested £480,000 as part of the protective and regenerative High Street Heritage Action Zone, responded to...

The production of tidal energy on the Isle of Wight is a step closer as plans have been submitted again to build a substation in Ventnor. Permission was previously granted in 2015 for the onshore elements of the Perpetuus Tidal...

Plans for a luxury restaurant aboard a 34-metre fully refurbished yacht have been unfurled. A licensing application has been submitted by the Freehold Group for a new floating bar and restaurant called The Boat, at East Cowes. According to its...

The decision to provide new public toilets in Shanklin has been branded unlawful by some town councillors. Shanklin town councillors agreed last month to accept the quote proposed by Danfo to replace the old Chine Bluff toilets, with 13 in...

The victim - Councillor Karl Love An Isle of Wight man who tormented his local councillor has been handed a 12-month restraining order. Simon Paul Wheeler, of Albany Road, was sentenced at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court on Monday...

New plans have been submitted to build houses on the site of a former popular cattery in Wootton. Under the plans submitted to the Isle of Wight the now-closed Reynards cattery would be demolished, along with the existing house, to...

GP surgeries have been criticised for ‘a lack of communication’ with patients during the height of the COVID pandemic. In a report from Healthwatch Isle of Wight (HIW), which looks back on the past year Island health services have faced...