Councillors are being asked to allow more time for new government guidance to be published and come into force before reconsidering the Draft Island Planning Strategy (IPS).
In early December Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, announced a number of possible changes to national planning policy in relation to housing, local plans and other issues.
Public consultation on a new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) Prospectus took place and ran until early March 2023 and a large number of local planning authorities across the country have paused their local plan making while these national planning changes take place.
As a result of the potential changes to national planning policy, at the Full Council meeting in January councillors agreed to extend the time until the end of June for a decision to be made on whether to take the Draft IPS forward.
As the government has not yet published the new NPPF, at Cabinet and Full Council meetings this month councillors will be asked to allow further time for the new NPPF to be published and come into force before reconsidering the Draft IPS.
At the same time they will be asked to keep open the route of preparing a new plan in line with any further changes to the planning system as a result of the forthcoming Levelling Up and Regeneration Act.
Councillor Paul Fuller, Cabinet member for planning and enforcement, said:
“We keenly await the new NPPF from government which we hope will make changes to national planning policy, some of which could be extremely positive for the Island.
Article continues below this advertisement “We also know that more changes are likely to come from the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act when it comes into force later in 2023.
“I have had positive conversations with the Island MP on this issue, as well as holding an all member briefing last week to keep councillors updated.
“This is why I will be recommending to Cabinet next week that Full Council are asked to allow more time for the new NPPF to be published before the Draft IPS goes back to Full Council and that the opportunity for a new plan under any new plan making system is also recognised.”
The IPS is a 15-year plan would set the council’s housing targets, outline employment space and create new planning policies. The latest report due to go before Cabinet on 11 May and Full Council on 17 May is available here.
With Whitehall deliberately importing over a million low skilled people every year and the home office sanctioning the illegal importing of a few hundred thousand more(that’s effectively 9 times the population of the whole Isle of Wight annually), the only thing the government strategy will say is to build more houses everywhere you can to accommodate their newly arrived ‘British’ citizens
Almost all those legally “imported” are skilled workers that the country needs but can’t provide itself. We used to get them from the EU. This is the truth of Brexit’s “British jobs for British workers”. It was always going to result in more non Europeans coming into the country. Just employed two Indian programmers myself, and very good they are too.
Then there is the fact that it was predicted by “Project Fear” that Brexit would make the illegal migration problem worse, and it has. Another miracle of what Hermann Hauser, founder of British tech giant ARM recently called “the idiocy of Brexit” when ARM chose to be listed on the New York stock market instead of London.
Did you vote for that “idiocy”? Bet you did.
What about the 5.6 million EU ‘workers’ who decided to stay after we supposedly left the EU, how many ‘high skilled’ jobs do you think we have in this country if we still need over a million new imports a year? If your claims are true we must have the highest skilled workforce anywhere on the planet – oh and why have you imported Indian programmers, a cursory glance on the famous business networking site reveals there are thousands of British born programmers looking for work because their jobs have all been outsourced to India – that’s a costly way to keep your business going when you could have shopped ‘local’
Oh?
And which “famous business networking site” is that? If you mean LinkedIn then just say so.
And if you had actually looked on LinkedIn you would see that there are thousands of software engineer jobs at all levels. I couldn’t find suitable people in the UK, let alone the Isle of Wight, which is why I go abroad.
I would prefer to employ British engineers, but there aren’t enough with the right skillset. They bull on their CVs but fail at the most schoolboy questions in interview.
I did try outsourcing, but found it inefficient.
Me too.
Could never find enough skilled British engineers. Used to employ from the EU as they could just work here with no restriction. Polish software guys were extremely good.
Now mostly employing from India and Pakistan and sponsoring their visas, which is an additional expense and hassle. The upside is that they have a lot invested in their visas and are less likely to go elsewhere. Most want to be UK citizens.
This is certainly an effect of Brexit. Those who voted for Brexit in the hope it would reduce reduce migration were deluding themselves.
Where are your figures to support this?
Daily Express, GB News, far-right websites, that sort of thing, I expect.
Dither and delay. That’s the best tactic at this time. You’re doing a great job IWC. Carry on.
No Island plan = developers doing what they want, it isn’t rocket science but this council just finds any excuse to keep avoiding the issue.
How they manage to decide what to wear everyday is beyond me.
The Council are as much use as a Rat in a Trap.
The Island is run by useless
Cupid Sunts!
This is a total cop out by the authority, no planning strategy means that any developer can step in decide to build, and when the council objects they go to an appeal, the council loses the appeal everytime when asked the question “whats your planning policy that this development breeches” answer we have no planning strategy, builder wins.
Planning strategy????
Don’t think they even know the meaning of planning and strategy , well far to high faluting for them 2 understand….
But what they do understand is more housing more council tax = more money in their pockets , more money to waste!!!
Fat cat pension top ups…..
Levelling up is v important when you have 2 budget 4 your retirement….
So they’ll plod their way through these new changes in late 2023 and early 2024, fail to agree again for several months. Then they’ll probably get it done around Autumn 2024. And low and behold it’s time for a general election, and everything changes again.
Pathetic.
More sponsored ballsh*t
The Island couldn’t plan how to undo a packet of crisps.
When I think of Island Councillors – c ondoms come to mind
All as useless as a split c ondom, they could not organise a
p*ss up in a brewery between them.
What a complete waste of tax payers money they are.
That is why my days of Voting are over, all are a shower of sh*t
Perhaps they might even think about numbers of Doctors and Dentists required to care for the Island’s population. Presently the numbers are way below the Governments own requirements, that needs to be put right before ANY further development..