The town and parish councils of Sandown, Shanklin and Lake, in partnership with the Isle of Wight Council, will formally launch the Bay Area Place Plan at a public meeting at the Broadway Centre, Sandown next Monday (8th January). The plan was commissioned by the three Bay area town and parish councils and the Isle of Wight Council. It is expected that the plan will successfully coordinate different projects and initiatives and help both the public and private sectors access grants and other sources of funding and will help guide investment and regeneration initiatives across the Bay Area of Shanklin, Lake and Sandown in the years ahead. The plan sets out a strategic direction for the Bay Area, including the principles and values that different projects should respond to based upon extensive consultation and engagement with the local community, including businesses that operate across the bay. In July 2023 a 3-day event – dubbed the ‘Think Space’ – was instrumental in generating new concepts and testing out ideas for change. Many of these ideas have found their way into the final report. A key recommendation in the plan is to the harness the creativity and enthusiasm of local people to deliver a series of highly visible and relatively inexpensive quick-win projects that will shift perceptions of the Bay Area. To find out how you or your organisation can be involved during 2024, please come along to the launch event to find out more. Event Details: Bay Area Place Plan Public Launch 19:00 – Monday 8th January 2024 Broadway Centre, Sandown, PO36 9GG
BAY AREA PLACE PLAN TO BE LAUNCHED AT PUBLIC MEETING NEXT WEEK
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You could start by renaming it Sandown Shanklin and Lake instead of the pretentious name “The Bay Area” which just brings to mind a beach not the towns.
A good idea if applied fairly across the Bay area but Sandown is such a mess and has the highest council tax precept on the IW.
There have already been suggestions that Lake and Shanklin should have increased council tax precepts precepts lumped together with Sandown in a Bay area council specifically to bring the cost down for Sandown residents with little, if any, benefit for the other towns concerned.
I can only hope that the various councillors from Lake and Shanklin are not bamboozled into submiting their own electorates to the ‘creativity and enthusiasm’ of Sandown councillors in finding ways for others to fund their much needed town regeneration.
Sandown residents Council Tax payments are probably paying for the 3 doss houses that we are blighted with. Any genuine, law abiding, NON drug or alcohol swilling individuals I feel sorry for and deserve to be housed so they are off the streets and safe but I don’t have any time for the low life druggies and alcoholics who are causing antisocial behaviour around the Town and generally making a nuisance of themselves which they constantly do. Residents and visitors don’t want to see this behaviour and the rubbish they leave lying around.
Can you get the stinking bogs open next to Hinks ..been closed a year now ..its pathetic.. and against human health and safety..what tourists think of it must be discusted..
The trouble with this is that ‘regeneration’ in public sector terms always means more taxpayer expenditure to pursue more wokery (inclusion, diversity) and of course net zero (penalising car owners and anything people enjoy doing) which are all favourite subjects of the metropolitan guardian class – consequently we will end up with a joyless embrace of punishment measures dressed up as something attractive as they all pat themselves on the back for ‘saving the planet’ , whilst ruining the island just a little bit more
Stop charging 50p to use the toilets in Sandown,
why do we pay Council tax, parking charges and Green Bin Waste charges.
Enough is enough.
I really don’t mean to sound patronising and i don’t have any issues with carefully thought through plans that are then delivered, but again these kind of forums are just another exercise to tick boxes. I wish a leader could step forward (Town Mayor maybe) and identify the first 3 action points.
1. Get the cliff path back open between Winchester House and Skew bridge. Yes it will cost money but the money can be found if the skill sets are in place and the will is there.
2. Employ 2 full time gardeners to keep the cliff paths and cliff tops looking attractive again. Have you seen pics of the cliff walk from the 1970’s and early 1980’s? They looked beautiful. 50k a year for two people March to October. More on next post.