Access to GP services and NHS dentistry remain key issues for Islanders, and feedback on Isle of Wight health and social care services is still overwhelmingly negative. Those are among the stark findings compiled in Healthwatch Isle of Wight’s Intelligence...

A hand-painted mural could be installed on the front of a Freshwater antiques shop. Luke Stagg has put forward a proposal to paint Odds & Sods on Afton Road with a ‘seaside and vintage theme’. Opened in December last year,...

A contentious proposal to build a 3-bedroom clifftop bungalow is facing an objection from an Isle of Wight parish council. Freshwater Parish Council (FPC) yesterday evening (Tuesday) decided to recommend a refusal of Sarah Whalley’s application for a new home...

Wightlink's ‘exorbitant dynamic pricing’ has been criticised at a parish council meeting for ‘hurting residents’ and ‘impacting local businesses’. Freshwater Parish Council (FPC) this week passed Councillor Warren Whyte’s motion requesting an update from Wightlink on the steps it is...

Plans to convert a former Isle of Wight care home into a 21-bed house in multiple occupation (HMO) have been withdrawn following mounting criticism. Joubert Properties’ application to convert the former Ward House Nursing Home on Ventnor’s Alpine Road has...

The deputy mayor of Shanklin Town Council has resigned, citing inaction over Big Mead Pond’s dangerously low water and suggesting a rift with the town’s mayor. Councillor Adrian Whittaker’s resignation letter on 31st July said that several important projects had...

A total of 6x 2-bedroom houses meeting the ‘needs of the local area’ could be built in Cowes, behind the town's football ground. Jack Reynolds has applied for planning permission to build 6 homes with car parking on land next...

Bembridge Parish Council has withdrawn its objection to The Point's seaside premises license after councillors visited the site and ‘changed their mind’. At the end of a packed Bembridge Parish Council (BPC) meeting at the Village Hall last Friday, councillors...

Plans to give Ryde's Festival Bar a new outside seating area, creating a more ‘Continental atmosphere’, have been conditionally approved. J.S. Hospitality’s application to expand the Festival Diner Bar on Union Street in Ryde has been accepted by planners who...

The former Chessell Pottery in the West Wight could house a new holiday unit. Mark Giddens is looking to convert part of the ground floor of Chessell Pottery off Middle Road – a proposal his agent, Paul Stack Planning, says...