A new 2-tier strategy for planning enforcement could be introduced — with the town, parish and community councils all being asked to chip in.
With a current backlog of cases stretching into the hundreds and ever-increasing funding pressures, the Isle of Wight Council (IWC) is looking at a new approach for its enforcement team.
The Isle of Wight Association of Local Councils (IWALC) last week heard from the IWC planning team that it could not monitor everything, nor all the concerns of local councils, so they needed to make good use of resources.
In the 7 months since April, 120 enforcement cases had been closed, thanks to a new team member helping to make a dent, but 154 cases had also been opened. Overall, the IWC still had 382 active enforcement cases.
The current system, officers said, was set up on a reactive basis but the new one would allow the council to do better, although the core enforcement service would still be reactionary and open to all town, parish and community councils.
Above that — provided at a cost to the local councils as a discretionary service — would be additional, proactive local enforcement.
The funding from the town, parish and community councils would then be used to fund more staff, providing a greater level of resource. It is something Newport and Carisbrooke Community Council introduced last year and currently has a 2-year trial with an officer working 3 days a week.
Officers were looking to start conversations with councils that were interested, to work out what their priorities were and how much it would then cost to get the extra help in their area.
The new enforcement strategy is set to come before the Isle of Wight Council’s cabinet in January for approval.
If the Council didn’t waste time and money on getting involved with what charities and the Main Government should be doing, in providing free food and aid to the ‘so called’ impoverished’ then they would have more fund to do what they are elected to do.
If the UK never imported so many new homeless, destitute here, then the whole nation would be better off in so many ways, more homes, lower rents and increased demand forces up rents, more gree spaces, less delays for dental and hospital and doctors appointments, less cars on the road, less water and energy needed, and last but certainly not least, less crime, meaning without them our own low end criminals could be jailed and for longer terms.
SEE the real problem in the UK now.
Yes, you display it very clearly.
Didn’t know planning existed on the Island.
From what I have seen people do what they want!
What planners don’t see, they don’t know about.
Builders paradise on the Island.
If IW Council expects local councils to contribute, I wonder where they think they wil get the money? And what about giving the same councils some say in planning approvals? At the moment thay can comment but are then ignored.
Twice I have applied for planning permission to create a parking space in my front garden, and twice I have been denied, but a guy down the road knocked his front wall down, cleared his frontage and parks his car there happily every day and night, nothing has happened to him, so I am wondering why do I bother to ask permission in the first place.
The answer is almost certainly your fear of getting told off or a meagre fine.
The same feeble attitude pretend wanna-be have a go hero’s use when a lout is attacking someone innocent. They always say ‘ I would have stepped in, but I would be in more trouble than the attacker’
Yet they also know the law is so very weak that at worst, all they would get is a fine as jails are filled with the world’s crims, so only the very worst offenders will ever get jailed now, so it is just gutless, weakness that prevents people from doing what they want, the young have sussed this, hence do as they please now and have an easier life because of it.
They seriously need to rethink how they deal with the build build build planning they allow !!
First they need to look at our 1 Hospital critical care measures then the Dentists, unless private then the Doctors, the whole infrastructure of the island , then they should just say NO , the island cannot cope with all the new builds mostly / definitely built for profit, not for the islanders at all , we are genuinely becoming a concrete jungle, of 2nd home owners and air band bs ..
Tourism will become a thing of the past no green space no tree’s no wildlife ….
Oh but the council tax will be good to top up their pension pot’s.
Merry Christmas ( not ) ..
Unless you are a builder or council worker.
Biggest drain across the board on our resources is the aged population, with no attempt to control it, its ever increasing through more and more retirees moving from the mainland and all they want to do us constantly try and deflect from that fact by going on about too much building, if they all went back to where they came from then the Islands young working families would be able to stay here and all of our services would be fine, stop avoiding the actual problem, too many retirees who complain too much about the basic needs for the younger generation, ie new houses