A Carisbrooke care home, closed by the Care Quality Commission, has finally been sold and a plan is in to turn it into houses.
Fairview House, on Clatterford Road, was shut down by the health watchdog 4 years ago, using urgent enforcement powers to stop new admissions, after concerns were raised.
All 22 residents were moved to different facilities within days of the inspection as serious problems, such as unsatisfactory administration of medicine and unclean conditions, were putting the residents at risk of harm.
The property was put up for sale and it was bought at auction 5 months ago, in May.
Now, owners Newman Homes have unveiled plans for the site, through a planning application to the Isle of Wight Council. It is planned, should permission be granted, to demolish part of the care home and turn it into 5 houses, ranging from 2 to 4 bedrooms.
Planning agent for the development, MDJ Architectural Services, said a feasibility study was undertaken to look at full demolition and a larger scheme but Newman Homes wanted to retain the building and undertake the conversion project. They said the proposed conversion was the minimum scheme that makes the development commercially viable for the site.
The building is said to be in a relatively poor state of repair with the development bringing it up to modern standards.
Off-street parking is proposed to the rear of the houses, using the space created by demolishing part of the building to fit in an access road.
Island Roads has recommended the application be refused due to the inadequate access width with the junction to Clatterford Road.
Proposals (21/02041/FUL) can be viewed on the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 19th November.
Of course they could have demolished it and turned it back into a nice, green open space for use by locals -but they wouldn’t make any cash from that would they.
usual story – more houses, more people, more mess.
yep.very true as usual wighter.but thumb fools are obv blind.truth hurts these folk in denial
I agree.
Whoever bought the ex-care home for half a million pounds should have had the sense to spend tens of thousands extra to demolish it (wasting energy, property, and materials in the process) and make it safe – then just give it away to locals so they could sit in an open space for free, right by a noisy, busy road.
They should then have provided each visitor to the free open space with some of whatever you’ve been smoking.
you dont get it “the truth” do you – we need to de-populate the island a bit – not increase it. It is overcrowded and congested
How do you propose to “depopulate” iow or UK or world come to that, compulsory euthanasia?? The island isn’t a principality with border or passport control. Anyone from UK can come here to live. Think it through.. or don’t bother commenting
clive – it is thought through – you do not build more houses, therefore no more room, which means no one else can move here – as places become derelict such as the above care home, they get demolished and the space returned to nature. The remaining housing stock becomes more expensive and those freeloading spongers, cannot afford to live here. This means that the overall standard of life on the island goes up, as does the air quality and congestion goes down, along with pollution.
perhaps you need to think things through before commenting.
and as for depopulating the world – please review history – what happened in the two world wars, what happened in the 1918 spanish flu, – large scale depopulation events happen and will happen again.
So now young people on minimum wage island because the “haves” won’t allow anything enterprising that pays higher wages that leads to even a fraction of their view being spoiled, they will find it even more impossible to own a property in your grand plan. NIMBYism at its finest; as long as your not surrounded by scum, definition, anyone not like you, It is actually quite frightening that anyone hold such selfish views
i see the predictable response from clive. you prefer environmental destruction and the concreting over more of the island, to accommodate more and more people. priceless.
correct – we do not want the s cum here – raise prices, reduce availability and it gets rid of the dregs of society and reduces the social benefit claiming sponging percentage of society to a minimum, as well as reducing congestion and overcrowding – win win
Luckily your extreme views will not gain traction; reminds me of Armageddon movies that show equivalent of gated communities for the privileged with every luxury, and those outside simply existing to “keep the lights on” and treated like animals living in slums their very existence only to service the whims of the elite, the final result isn’t pretty (for the privileged). Called tyranny
You only get views like this on an island.
Find me someone from Wiltshire or Sussex who speaks like this.
It’s narcissistic self-engrandisment.
And signs of a failed personality.
Judging by the responses to our respective posts, I DO get it but you unfortunately don’t.
Your hatred and vitriol to others less able or well-off than you is proudly on display again, just like it was a few days ago when you commented on the article about Winter support for those not able to afford heating – where you said let them freeze to death.
Have you contacted the developers for this ex-care home (their details are clearly in this article) to suggest your well-thought-out plan ?
They’ll be impressed.
And they may consider reverting the large property back to a care home.
A mental one, for mad men like you.
Please consider what you are actually saying, it is unrealistic, unworkable, unfair, immoral, and undemocratic.