A new housing proposal next to Horsebridge Hill is facing opposition from Isle of Wight highways service provider Island Roads.

A councillor has spoken out to say that Newport & Carisbrooke Community Council is a 'modern-day rotten borough'.

A new housing proposal next to Horsebridge Hill will help provide “much-needed homes” for Isle of Wight families, a local councillor has said.

Plans for a new 2-bedroom apartment on the lower ground floor of a Victorian villa in Ryde have been accepted despite opposition from locals. 

A set of ‘essential’ actions to improve the Isle of Wight Council after the damning Penn report described it as ‘dysfunctional’ were agreed by councillors earlier this week.

A new multi-use community hub could replace office space in a historic East Cowes building, known by locals as the ‘building on stilts’.

The Island is in need of a fresh set of elections, MP Joe Robertson has said in response to the damning Penn report, which described County Hall as ‘dysfunctional’. 

A motion aiming to improve men’s health outcomes on the Isle of Wight is set to be voted on at County Hall this evening as the Island faces one of the “highest” rates of male suicide in the UK.

Fewer affordable housing units but a higher volume of homes could be built under changes proposed to the Isle of Wight’s new local plan.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision could increase by 50% at Lionheart School, thanks to a proposed expansion to the former Cowes Primary School site.