County Hall’s watchdog panel will today (Tuesday) scrutinise the Isle of Wight Council’s expected landmark decision to close 5 primary schools. The Corporate Scrutiny Committee will pore over a paper due to be presented at Thursday’s cabinet meeting which covers...

Isle of Wight councillors have sparred over delivering affordable housing, with one questioning whether it will mean a 'few bits of corrugated iron and a bit of wood'. The dispute has centred on a successful bid by the Conservatives to...

Part of a Victorian warehouse in the heart of the Isle of Wight’s largest town will be transformed into 3 studio flats. KLAR Property Limited’s application for a change of use of part of the ground floor and first floor...

A motion to support Isle of Wight farmers following contentious Labour tax changes has been passed by Full Council. On Wednesday evening, a majority of councillors voted for Councillor Claire Critchison’s proposal that Council Leader Phil Jordan calls for the...

A bid to construct a wooden boat store unit on the picturesque seafront at Seaview is facing opposition from the Parish Council. Nettlestone and Seaview Parish Council objected to Timothy Lyle’s planning application for a 4m x 8m garage at...

An employment skills ‘one-stop shop’ for 18 to 24-year-olds on out-of-work benefits is ‘proving very effective’, it is claimed. Referencing a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) review in a recent Council Leader’s update report, Councillor Phil Jordan said the...

Contentious plans to build a new seafront café on the site of a ‘half-built eyesore’ in an Isle of Wight village have been revised following objections. Hospitality business SE-View submitted updated plans for a café at Kingsmere on Lane End...

An underground electrical cable relating to an approved Isle of Wight solar farm could be installed along a roughly 2.5km route through rural farmland. Samuel Dix of Low Carbon Solar Park 17 Limited has applied to County Hall for planning...

A near 5% council tax hike has been approved as part of the Alliance administration’s 2025/26 budget, passed at a decisive Isle of Wight Council meeting last night (Wednesday). Isle of Wight households will soon have to fork out even...

Plans for 2 new farm barns covering hundreds of square metres on the outskirts of East Cowes have been rejected by County Hall. Allard submitted an Agricultural Prior Notification (APN) application to build a pair of barns at Woodhouse Farm...