The town and parish councils of Lake, Sandown and Shanklin, in partnership with the Isle of Wight Council, have formally launched the Bay Area Place Plan at a public meeting in Sandown. The 98-page report comprises 3 main sections: principles and values, spatial strategy and themes and topics, including highlighting potential investment and civic opportunities for the three Bay area communities. It also showcases data and feedback from the 3-day think space delivered by Feria and Storii, which saw residents and local businesses come together to share their visions for the future of the area. The place plan sets out its aims and objectives that focus around engagement and empowerment, strategic thinking, economic growth, infrastructure investment, quality of life for residents and visitors, and securing funds. Laura Cansdale, area and town centre regeneration programme manager, said:
“We know from experience elsewhere on the Island that the place planning approach can help attract investment and deliver positive results for local communities. “I’m really looking forward to seeing what we can achieve across Sandown, Lake and Shanklin as we work together on this new place plan.”
A joint statement from the town and parish councils of Lake, Sandown and Shanklin says:
“We’re delighted to publish this plan as it reflects extensive feedback from our communities, gathered at the public sessions last summer. “We particularly like the concept of “urban acupuncture” which demonstrates how a network of small interventions can help make a big impact. “This plan is a launch pad for the town and parish councils and our communities, to work together, to deliver projects, to bring about the changes we want to see.”
Councillor Julie Jones-Evans, Cabinet member for economy, regeneration, culture and leisure, has said:
“Place-based regeneration is a fundamental cornerstone of our strategy for the island, and this place plan is the latest in a series of collaborations with town, parish and community councils to reflect accurately the aspirations and needs of local communities. “The Bay area plan is particularly exciting as it takes on three distinct areas which share a common geography, and the plan has reflected well the personalities of the three towns. “There’s plenty of inspiration which can be turned fairly quickly into projects; giving confidence to residents that this plan has power. Exciting times indeed.”
End giving Methadone to the druggies, put any offenders in boot camps,stop paying people to breed and don’t give priority to those who do for housing.
Then, and only then will society have a chance to flourish, as damage, anti social behaviour, and the major costs to all others is not spent, but wasted on the nere do well’s mentioned above.
The naive think those poor dim people having children are supplying a need to aid society, BUT the truth is that their ‘children’ are needy ALL their entire life and cost us more than the few who ‘may’ by a miracle end up working and paying their way in life.
So the low lives we give food too, are often the same as those who rob, stab, smash, mug, steal and swindle their way through life
You sound like a sociopath
Thank you, I think!
I will Google it later. But I am sure your right, as everyone needs a title these days, unless coloured or mentally unstable, then a title becomes an insult, somehow.
Fiddling while Rome burns comes to mind, these folk better get a move on and do something because de-generation across the SANDOWN BAY area is accelerating. While hotels have been closing down, retail shutting up shop and roads breaking apart, our town and parish councils have been sitting on their hands dreaming up schemes for fancy loos, hanging baskets, naff Christmas lights rather than noticing that Newport and Ryde have been getting all the cash and investment.
Sandown is famous for it’s 50p to have a P*ss toilets
It’s not obvious in Ryde or Newport
Sounds like a load of the usual hand waving. Does the report actually contain any concrete plans or proposals? Perhaps Warren could read it and give us the highlights minus the bullshit and virtue signalling, although that might be a blank page.
Sandown needs a miracle talk is cheap politics what politics empty vessels make the loudest sound You reap what you sow. No ones sewing happy new year 2024
Is THE BAY area a modern term of describing Lake, Sandown and Shanklin??
Everything is THE BAY, it’s a lazy way to refer to SANDOWN BAY, but of course you can’t call it Sandown Bay because you might offend Shanklin, Lake is the heart of THE BAY, etc, etc, Corny and Californian, undoubtably someone on one of the town councils thought it sounded so modern and trendy, it was probably our dear leader in waiting Paul Brading….
Bulldoze Sandown Seafront up to the High street, replace with a broad promenade lined with restaurants, bars, a night club! and some shops all with good sea views, with a couple of multi storey car parks below high street level. Topped 20 to 30 storey apartment blocks, holiday flats and a couple of hotels to pay for it all. If the Spanish can do it! There is nothing worth saving in Sandown. I propose this of course to watch the usual nimbies splutter.
Why stop at the High Street…
I remember looking forward to the Bay Plan improvements in 2003. Whatever happened to that? Don’t hold your breath.
Where can we see this report???
What a salmagundi of tossed salad-corporate baloney waffle.’Urban Accupuncture’ indeed ? What they’re really planning is how best to carve up the islands natural landscape beauty and best direct a financial funnel into the nearest masonically aligned bank account..