A frontline team — which provides vital care to the sick and vulnerable during the night — is to be halved. A decision was made by the Isle of Wight Council in the 2019/20 budget to save £2million in adult...

Plans have been submitted to turn a piece of land near the railway line in Ryde into 11 business units. Proposals, submitted to the Isle of Wight Council, could see 2 and 3-storey buildings developed on the former timber yard...

Yarmouth Town Council is looking to modernise and upgrade the toilets in Bridge Street and on the High Street by the common, with 2 planning applications submitted to the Isle of Wight Council. Working with Swedish company Danfo, who have...

Boundaries of Isle of Wight Council wards are being thoroughly shaken up — meaning 30 wards will change and 1 councillor will be lost. Following a revision of boundary lines from the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE), the...

Issues around discrepancies in monies taken on the Floating Bridge have been resolved, according to the Isle of Wight Council. Previously, in internal Isle of Wight Council audit reports, it was marked as a high risk that trouble with the...

A planning application for 475 houses in Ryde has been submitted. Validated earlier this week by the Isle of Wight Council, Westridge Village (IOW), owned by the bosses of Captiva Homes, has put forward the application to demolish agricultural barns,...

An 'ill-founded’ planning application for 3 houses on a narrow road in Carisbrooke has been rejected by the Isle of Wight Council. Developers were hoping to build 3 houses – 2x 4-beds and 1x 3-bed – on Alvington Road, after...

10 new houses are to be built on the site of a demolished hotel in Sandown. The Isle of Wight Council this week approved the scheme for the site of the former Belgrave Hotel, on Beachfield Road, Sandown, which was...

A pub in Lake that has failed to operate as a viable business since 2013 could be turned into 5 flats. A planning application has been submitted to transform The Stag Inn from a pub to private accommodation. The pub...

A developer is appealing the Isle of Wight Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for 2 houses in Shanklin town centre — submitting a revised development. In January this year, the council’s planning team denied permission to demolish a shop...