As building work gets underway at its new site at Branstone Farm, changes are being proposed to the original base of Goddards Brewery in Ryde.
In the first stages of the Isle of Wight Council’s plans for a rural business park near Newchurch, the Island’s popular craft beer producers were given the green light for a new purpose-built brewery and bottling facility.
Permission was granted earlier this year for the facility, 42 affordable houses and 18 offices, to be built on the former Branstone Farm education centre, in a £2.4 million scheme which is now underway.
Having outgrown its former base on Bullen Road, near Westridge Golf Centre, the brewers are now seeking to turn the redundant bottling hall and brewery office into a 2-bed cottage.
The applicants of the application, the Goddards, restored the derelict set of buildings to become ancillary buildings to the brewery, but these will be redundant early next year.
Planning documents, submitted in favour of the change of use, said “common sense suggests (backed up by experience) that there is little demand for office use at this location” and so the house is being sought.
To view plans, 21/00870/FUL, you can visit the council’s planning register. Comments will be accepted until 25th June.
As part of the plans for the new site in Newchurch, the new barn-style brewery will have a visitors’ experience centre, new office, retail and storage space with hop fields. A bar and restaurant at the first-floor level is also included in the plans overlooking the brewing hall.
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navigateto the Councils planning portal i have no idea where exactly this development is. Please use plain English and be specific. Thank you.Go along Bullen road towards nettlestone, when you get to the sharp left hand bend turn right.
Its a beautiful walk or cycle route.
There’s houses, stables and fields and the brewery site.
So building one or two houses would not ruin this site at all.
Basically it means that Barnsley farm owners know they can ‘develop’ aka as ruin the old farm site where the brewery currently is and make far more money by turning the existing buildings into homes and then rent cheaper premises elsewhere.
Thus getting permission for ‘change of use’ is far easier to gain planning for houses than asking for such from farm buildings.
Sly, money grabbing as they COULD expand where they are, but this way far more money in it for them.
So if you own an asset and run a business you’re not allowed to make money? Sounds to me you just hate change.
Did you actually read the article?
“The applicants of the application, the Goddards, restored the derelict set of buildings to become ancillary buildings to the brewery, but these will be redundant early next year”
Have you restored derelict buildings recently? sly money grabbing? making a success of a business and wanting to expand even further no doubt employing more people, in a new rural business park with visitor centre tourist attraction.. disgraceful behaviour
What’s wrong in maximising your profit on your investment . Do you work for free ?
Sounds to me like you haven’t been past the brewery for a very long time.
The work the brewery and other homes have done there to tidy the place up definitely warrants a nice home or two built .
May I suggest you walk past like we do regularly and see exactly what you’re moaning about.
I would be the first to complain if they were destroying habitat for animals to make a fast buck. It is not the case here and may I ask why you didn’t complain when all the work to the tired old barns and farmhouse were done originally.
Exactly!!! stop moaning and hoping your little ticks will build up on here.
Could have been so much worse, like multiple ‘affordable’ units. Thankfully its a one off, and to be fair Goddards did rescue the old ruined farmhouse.