Planning
Every Friday Island Echo publishes a list of planning applications submitted to the Isle of Wight Council. You'll also find other planning-related stories in this category.
ISLE OF WIGHT PLANNING APPLICATIONS: 29TH AUGUST 2025
The following planning applications and appeals have been submitted to the Isle of Wight Council. They can be viewed online at www.iwight.com/planning. Alternatively, they can be viewed at Seaclose Offices, Fairlee Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2QS. Comments on the applications...
Read moreDetailsCOUNCIL SLAMS ‘MISLEADING’ PLANNING BID AS HALF-BUILT HOUSE EMERGES
A home replacement and demolition proposal criticised as ‘misleading’ and ‘premature’ by Seaview Parish Council has been given the go-ahead. County Hall planners approved Mark Pacy’s bid to replace his home, Tamarisk, on Seaview’s Seagrove Manor Road, with a new...
Read moreDetailsPLANS FOR ROOKLEY WAREHOUSE TO BECOME 24 HOUR SELF STORAGE SITE
Planning permission is being sought to turn the former Toogood Plastics warehouse in Rookley into a 24-hour self storage facility. Worchester-based Driver Property has applied to the Isle of Wight Council to vary of condition 4 of a previous application...
Read moreDetailsFUMO’S PLANS FOR EXTERNAL SEATING COULD SEE THE REMOVAL OF PARKING SPACES
A popular restaurant in Ryde has applied for planning permission to convert multiple parking spaces directly outside into an outdoor dining area in hopes of 'enhancing' Ryde's atmosphere. Fumo33, the contemporary Asian fusion dining spot on the top-end of Union...
Read moreDetailsISLE OF WIGHT PLANNING APPLICATIONS: 22ND AUGUST 2025
The following planning applications and appeals have been submitted to the Isle of Wight Council. They can be viewed online at www.iwight.com/planning. Alternatively, they can be viewed at Seaclose Offices, Fairlee Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2QS. Comments on the...
Read moreDetailsOWNERS SEEK TO DEMOLISH ST LAWRENCE’S OLD PARK LODGE FOLLOWING LANDSLIP DESTRUCTION
Plans have been submitted to demolish what remains of Old Park Lodge in St Lawrence, after the property was left partially destroyed and structurally unsound by a landslip last year. The 2-storey home was devastated by ground movement in March...
Read moreDetailsPROPOSAL TO TURN VACANT QUAY STREET OFFICES INTO HOMES
6 new flats could be developed within a vacant office space in Newport. IPM SIPP Administration has proposed a conversion of 39-40 Quay Street in Newport to provide 4x 1-bedroom apartments and 2 with 2 bedrooms. The application also includes...
Read moreDetailsPLANS FOR NEW 2-BED HOMES IN COWES FACE HIGHWAYS BLOCK
A bid to build 6x 2-bedroom houses in Cowes has been met with an objection from the Isle of Wight’s highways service provider. Island Roads is opposing Jack Reynolds’s planning application to construct 6 homes with car parking on land...
Read moreDetailsGREEN LIGHT GIVEN TO BETAPAK PLANS SET TO CREATE 20 NEW JOBS
A successful Isle of Wight manufacturing and office supply business is set to expand its distribution and storage facilities, creating 20 new jobs. Planners have approved Betapak’s proposed industrial unit on Pritchetts Way in Rookley, described as an ‘important opportunity’...
Read moreDetails‘HIGH QUALITY’ HOMES PLAN FOR ST HELENS MET WITH LOCAL CONCERNS
Plans for 5 new ‘high quality’ houses in St Helens are facing objections, but a county councillor says the bid is ‘generally supported locally’. Applicants Stratton and Raben applied for planning permission to build 5 homes, classed as ‘market housing’,...
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