The battle to build much-needed new homes at West Acre Park in Ryde continues as campaigners have been given permission to take a Crown Court decision to appeal.
It was back in July that His Honour Judge Jarman ruled in favour of the Isle of Wight Council, dismissing a Judicial Review case brought forward by Greenfield (IOW) Ltd. which claimed the granting of planning permission by the local authority was flawed.
Nimby campaigners have not accepted the outcome of the Crown Court hearing though, deciding instead to take the matter to appeal.
Lord Justice Lewison has this week granted permission for the case to be heard in the Court of Appeal in London, where a 2-day trial is expected to take place next year.
It means that plans by Bembridge-based Captiva Homes to deliver more than 470 new homes on land at West Acre Farm, in a scheme that would secure £100million of investment, cannot progress and look likely to stall for a further 12 months.
In August, the developers said they were ready to begin work with a view to the first homes being ready for occupation in 2025 – but that desire seems to now be out the window, leaving Isle of Wight families on the hunt for new and affordable accommodation even longer.
The Isle of Wight Council originally approved plans for West Acre Park in July 2021, before then approving the plans for a second time in April 2023.
Much needed for who, looks like half the world is turning up over here so who will the social part of the housing be given to, not us.
If the West didn’t pulverise their countries in the
first place, they would not need to turn up.
The instigators are too blame, not the persons
arriving (They did not choose for their lives to be ruined)
people seem to forget that!
I’m not sure your grasp on world events is as accurate as you think it is.
Much needed for who, locals will not be able to afford these shabbily built rabbit hutches so will it be a case of off dinghies and into paid for housing.
Our services cannot cope now, no NHS dentists and overworked drs surgeries, a hospital that is little more than a first aid station with insufficient beds but hundreds of administrators.
You sound like a true Reformer
Lol
Plenty of homes for sale on rightmove
No new homes are needed, why don’t
IW Council buy up,all the homes for sale
Job done.
This is not about immigration.
It’s about Captiva building a small sub section of ‘affordable’ houses to meet the ‘government criteria’ then building most of their house to be sold to mainlanders lining Captiva’s pockets..
For info there is currently a sewer collapse in field in Appley that Captiva want to start building 475 homes homes on.
How is the current sewer system going to cope with 475 new homes?
‘This means that plans by Bembridge-based Captiva Homes to deliver more than 470 new homes on land at West Acre Farm, in a scheme that would secure £100million of investment’
So who would be benefiting from this £100million of investment?
The land owner?
Captiva?
IOW Council?
Maybe investors could donate £100million into the current sewer system before adding more houses to the current infrastructure.
The latest Ryde Sewer collapse rumble on..