Toilets on the seafront at Sandown are set to re-open this week after community calls to the local Town Council. The public conveniences on Pier Street had been closed due to safety reasons and are part of plans for new...

Ryde Town Council has tried to allay residents’ fears after submitting an application to hold events at Ryde's Eastern Gardens all year round. In a licence application to the Isle of Wight Council, the town council is asking for permission...

New public toilets are a step closer for Sandown seafront as the Isle of Wight Council has agreed to the long lease of land at Eastern Gardens - but Southern Water has thrown a spanner in the works. Sandown Town...

Magistrates have thrown out an appeal against an enforcement notice issued against the Ocean Hotel in Sandown, after the eyesore's owners failed to show in court for a second time. Phoenix Commercial Property Developments (PCPD) were fighting the notice issued...

An Isle of Wight village may once again have a convenience store, after its previous shop closed 3 years ago. Plans have been lodged with the Isle of Wight Council to build a convenience store and 7 homes off Town...

£3million of so-called improvements to Newport Town Centre, which will include the removal of parking spaces, has been given the go-ahead by the Isle of Wight Council. The plans, part of the Newport High Street Heritage Action Zone 'People First'...

Councillor Michael Lilley An Isle of Wight councillor is calling on people renting their properties through AirBnB to think of others and provide housing for Islanders instead. In a meeting of the council’s corporate scrutiny committee on Tuesday, Councillor Michael...

An Isle of Wight holiday park is looking to provide entertainment later into the night but nimby neighbours have raised concerns about the potential ‘racket’ created. Parkdean Resorts, owners of Thorness Bay Holiday Park, is asking permission to increase the...

There are fresh hopes that Ryde's dilapidated ice rink could be brought back into use after the Isle of Wight Council agreed to let new tenants take over the abandoned building. Earlier this year the local authority said it was...

Unauthorised structures in a pub garden in Bembridge are to be removed after an enforcement investigation – but the landlord is hoping to get permission for a new building. During the course of the COVID pandemic, pub landlord and local...