An area of Lake has become ‘ramshackle’ and a ‘sprawl’ and doesn’t have the necessary planning permissions, the Isle of Wight Council has said. Through its planning enforcement notice, the Isle of Wight Council is alleging in the last 10...

Food hygiene inspectors on the Isle of Wight have been busy rating hotels, restaurants, shops and food trucks in the last couple of months. Each eatery or food-producing business on the Island is awarded a score of 0-5, based on...

Mottistone Manor, one of the Isle of Wight’s most prestigious manor houses once home to Barons, Sirs and MPs, could soon open its doors to the public for the first time. Located in the idyllic village of Mottistone near the...

A beachside café on Shanklin seafront has been met by a wall of opposition over its plans to start selling alcohol. The Lazy Wave Café on Shanklin Esplanade asked the Isle of Wight Council for permission to have a licence,...

Poundland's move from its current position on Ryde High Street to the site of the former Woolworths store - and most recently M&Co - has now been confirmed. The change of premises was revealed at the end of July, as...

Island Life Craft Brewery has cleared the first hurdle in its attempts to bring a new ale house to East Cowes, after the Isle of Wight Council’s licensing sub-committee granted it permission to serve alcohol. However, before it can officially...

An Isle of Wight chain restaurant has improved its food hygiene rating after inspectors previously found poor standards. The Sloop Inn, in Wootton, was slapped with a score of 2 in March as Isle of Wight Council environmental health officers...

Yarmouth Town Council will unveil its bid to buy a former primary school building next week — and it could involve housing. Since pupils moved out of the Yarmouth CE Primary School in December last year, the site on Mill...

New state-of-the-art laboratories could be coming to the CECAMM educational facility in Whippingham as part of a multi-million-pound government scheme. Through the South Coast Institute of Technology (IoT), the Isle of Wight College’s Centre of Excellence for Composites, Advances Manufacturing And...

A controversial development planned for the edge of an Isle of Wight village is back on the cards and it could be even bigger than was originally planned. New developers have taken control of a currently empty greenfield site on Newport...