Residents are resisting plans for 2 houses to be built in a rural Isle of Wight village as they claim irreplaceable wetlands would be impacted.
Mainland company Domusea Developments have put forward plans for just 2 houses — 1x 3-bed and 1x 4-bed — behind Lily Grove, a property on Brighstone Main Road.
Plans say the designs are for energy-efficient, barn-type detached houses in a rural courtyard layout.
Agents for the developers, Smith Simmons and Partners (SS-P), say the development has been arranged to provide sufficient space between the new buildings and neighbouring properties.
It is a site within the Brighstone Conservation Area and the Island’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), which SS-P say the proposals would conserve and enhance.
SS-P argue the 0.8-hectare site, which is thought to be the garden of Lily Grove, is brownfield land after a High Court judgement defined residential curtilage located outside a built-up area as previously developed land.
However, the AONB Partnership, Brighstone Parish Council and neighbours argue the land has not previously been developed and has never been part of the Lily Grove garden, instead being used as a paddock for sheep, horses and cattle.
Around 20 objections have so far been submitted and raise concerns about it sitting within a Flood Zone and a lack of archaeological assessment as historical documents suggest a potential settlement could be located near to the site which dates back to 1086.
The parish council and nearby residents say they have identified the land is a water meadow and a rare and valuable natural habitat for wildlife, which the developer has supposedly not recognised.
The Isle of Wight Council’s tree officer says the impact on trees will be far greater than envisaged in the reports and the proposed resolutions are impracticable and not possible.
The AONB Partnership says the development would or would be likely to have significant harmful impacts on the specialist characteristics of the AONB. It also says insufficient information has been submitted to determine impacts or mitigate any ecological harm to the site.
You can view the plans, 22/01507/FUL, on the council’s planning register. Comments have closed but they can still be submitted to the authority although they may not be considered in any decision-making.
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Lucky you are living in Brighstone and worrying about two houses. Try living in East Cowes
I remember the school there had about a dozen of those temporary classrooms before they rebuilt it, of course that doesn’t matter to barratt they probably made millions in profits.
Presumably these residents weren’t out complaining back when their houses were being built???
Also, presumably these residents weren’t out complaining about the wholesale destruction of the enviroment regarding Ryde, Cowes, East Cowes and Newport.
Yes we were! The whole Island is being trashed and everyone must support each other to stop the catastrophic destruction and transplanting of population exploited by greedy parasites
“It is a site within the Brighstone Conservation Area and the Island’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)”
Surely that speaks for itself…
Maybe it’s about time others follow what the brighstone residents are doing and ‘resist’ all the mass house building going on in Ryde, Cowes, Newport etc.
You have no idea, Joe!
NO MORE BUILDS until we can sustain the population we have and the utilities available. Relying on water from the rivers on the mainland is not the answer, a hospital that cannot cope with the demands asked of it, a shortage of GPs, no NHS dentists at all, expensive bus service the list goes on. Even the supermarket shelves are emptying again due to lack of supply. I won’t mention the roads!
Remember EVERY boat load arrive on UK shores indirectly pushes others to leave towns and villages they no longer feel at home in and many come here to retire.
So end the unwanted costly flow and life would return to semi normal imo
Mainland developer making distorted claims:
1. That the site is previously developed land when it is NOT. It is a Greenfield site in the AONB and conservation area.
2. That the site has minimal flood risk. This is NOT true. There is an Environment Agency flood zones 2 and 3 constraint on the site.
3. That trees in the area will not be damaged by the new access road. NOT so. The IOW tree officer has exposed the true extent of damage that will result.
4. That the ecology of the site will be enhanced. It will not. Instead, a rare and ancient wetland meadow will be destroyed.
This is speculative development at its worst. The site is not suitable for development.