Isle of Wight Councillors will be presented with an updated draft of the Island Planning Strategy at Cabinet next Thursday (8th September).
The Cabinet will also consider any recommendations on the draft plan from the Corporate Scrutiny Committee, which meets 2 days before, and will then make a recommendation to Full Council at its meeting on 21st September.
It sets out the overall approach towards future development on the Island and the policies to be used in assessing planning applications. The draft plan includes policies that mean that affordable housing is even more affordable to Islanders, gives more protection to the countryside and that new homes will be net zero carbon.
The plan fronts up to some difficult decisions and outlines the expectation that 7,185 homes are to be built within the 15-year period up to 2037. However, almost a third of these (2,135) already have planning permission.
Councillor Paul Fuller, Cabinet member for planning and enforcement, has said:
“A new Island Planning Strategy is absolutely vital when it comes to our ability to determine where development takes place on the Island.
“Following resident feedback, our plan makes a strong overarching commitment to use brownfield sites for new homes and to defend greenfield land from unplanned developments. Agreeing a new plan will give us the tools to tackle issues I think we all want to tackle, such as the affordability of new homes and contribute to our environment agenda. It will also increase our ability to refuse inappropriate development.
“The Island Planning Strategy puts the council in a much stronger position. As portfolio holder I am committed to moving this forward so we can get into the formal stage of seeking public representations before submitting OUR Strategy to Government.”
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Once the draft is approved by Full Council it will move through a rigorous statutory process set by national Government with the local authority publishing the document and seeking public representations. After that, it will be submitted to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, who will appoint a Planning Inspector to consider the content of the plan and representations made, including holding public hearings, before producing a final report.
Once this process is completed the Council will have the opportunity to adopt the local plan based on the Inspector’s recommendations.
Who going to pay my 90pound for my windscreen
YOU are, but the name of the person you need, IF brave enough to get payment in full is on here for you all to make a group arrangement to go collect, when you find his address.
But you won’t, some will trust in karma, some in God, some in the law to ‘punish’ him, yet none will, so as I say, YOU will pay, and all our insurance will rise because of gutter filth like this.
The next generation it sires, will be even worse.
That is the reality, unpopular as it is
Meeting shouldn’t take long as their only plan seems to be to concrete over the island and build substandard rabbit hutches.
You would be foolish indeed imo to trust one word of whatever they say.
Massive, life changing sums of money, from turning under used cheap agricultural land in hugely expensive building plots will always ensure that corruption is close at hand.
They pretend they have or will ‘listen’ to the public, but even IF and a big IF they do, it will only be because they have already done what they want to do, OR the publics wishes coincide with those of their own.
They have ruined the Island forever, not just due to their building but the types they then are paid by other councils to fill them.
Trust is gone and will never return.
All of the increase in the Island population over the last 10 years has been in those aged over 65. Numbers of those under 65 have declined and the number of children (15 and under) have declined rapidly.
This is a fact and can easily be seen by comparing the 2011 census data to that of 2021.
So, no, not “types they then are paid by other councils to fill them“, but well-off elderly retirees. While these incoming geriatrics don’t directly buy the new builds, they buy up all the more desirable properties and cause a knock-on effect where, ultimately, locals are forced into the new builds and young islanders can’t afford anything at all.
A fact you won’t read in your Government data is the reason why so many more pensioners have relocated here
A huge silent or perhaps in this PC regime, voluntarily self silenced amount have come here as they are uneasy living in Cities towns and villages where they feel like the outsider now
Many have deeply disturbing tales yet the media now hush as much exposure to anything negative on selected sensitive topics as the race card stifles truth but ensures no reprisals for the media
The elderly have a right to enjoy their hard earned retirement in safety and peace and I hope they find such here but fear new estates will be filled with those they thought they had evaded
The new estates are not being “filled with those they thought they had evaded“. As already pointed out to you, the only expansion in the Island population is in the over 65s. This is a fact, and is census data, so is completely reliable.
The expansion in the Isle of Wight population is entirely down to retirees moving here. This is a fact, whether you like it or not. The fact that the data doesn’t fit your xenophobic world view is your problem.
Yes the census doesn’t lie. But the figures you quote don’t shed light of the movement of the under 65s population during those 10 years. There may have been significant movement of Islanders to the mainland and mainlanders to the Island but without these stats, can’t say either way.
No Council is paid to take people from other local authority areas. No idea why people on this site continually repeat this BS.
Sorry to correct you but councils are paid to accept residents from other areas for any number of reasons, from where I have family, Cranbrook new town east of Exeter, were paid over the odds to house problem families from Bristol, and Weston Super Mare, result it is now a crime ridden ghetto, destroyed before it ever had a chance to succeed, London coucils for the last two years have been offering generous relocation packages to their elder generation who may no longer need three bedroom council properties to move to Cornwall in smaller housing association stock, so it does happen and probably a lot more than we know.
It’s never happened!
Mark,,I never post anything that I have not independently checked frommore than one source , there is still uproar in Cornwall about the London arrangement but it continues to take place, troubled children in full time care are shipped around the country on a regular basis because it is cheaper to look after them in say Devon or Droset as opposed to London. If you deny something at least be sure of your facts..
What? It is not BS. It’s happening.
Absolutely agree James. Do IOW residents understand our IOW Council get paid huge sums of money to house the dregs of society from the mainland? I’m not belittling law abiding mainlanders who move here, I’m talking about the worst of the worst who have been moved around on the mainland, caused so much trouble that the only place left to house them is here? These stupid councillors accept them. We don’t want these sorts here. Don’t they understand that?
The country was locked down because of Covid to stop hospitals being overcome.
same should be done with house building.
Put the infrastructure in first.
It doesn’t matter how many hospitals you build if there are no medical staff to work in them. The Tories have spent the last 12 years devaluing medical careers and then making it far more difficult to recruit from overseas to placate their far-right voters. Now we have an NHS that is understaffed, overmanaged and micromanaged by non-medical managers in unsuccessful attempts to spread too few medical staff over too many roles.
Can’t have an underlying principle to protect the countryside then stick a 500 housing estate on farming land.
Take away the big greenfield schemes in Ryde they currently have locked down and their strategy numbers look like crap. It’s just hypocritical nonsense, they’re just driven by numbers not principle.
They should plan and build a tunnel. Then we would not need so many new homes built over here,
The more properties they build, the more money the ferries will make.. and if they finally build over 7,000 homes, where will the new people park their cars, especially when shopping ? Already far too many cars on this Island.
What about Dr’s, Dentist’s, and our schools… let alone our already filled hospital..
Two possibilities.
Which would happen is anyone’s guess.
Hayling Island is connected. Portsmouth is on an Island, it is connected… It would be better for this Island if it had a connecting tunnel.. get your head out of the mud… it is 2022 not 1822.. ferries are an outdated way to travel, unless a sightsee’er.. !
Sorry, do you seriously believe a tunnel will reduce the number of cars on this Island? I take it you do realise Portsmouth is an Island with fixed links, Portsmouth is an example of an Island turned into a concrete overpopulated jungle, packed with crime and massive drug problems, Do you want to turn the Island into part of the mainland?
Be very careful what you wish for, this Island would end up with all the problems so many Islanders complain about very quickly, a fixed link would change the Island’s problems not remove them.
The problems are already here… probably more drugs here than in Portsmouth.. !
The council should follow the lead given by Basingstoke Council no more development until all local service’s are brought up to scratch and can cope
Just imagine another 14 thousand cars going around Coppins bridge !!
Yeah yeah………just build truly affordable homes for islanders only. No more second homes. No more mainland buyers hoovering up properties and offering £10, £15, £20K over the asking price!
Stipulate the builders must insulate these new homes with the best materials available.
Scrap P Feathers and Westacre. Anyone in their sane mind would not pass and allow these many new homes to be built in Ryde.
OUR INFRASTRUCTURE WILL NOT COPE.
It is really struggling now. In God’s name, wake up IOW Council.
Not against your suggestion, but define truly affordable homes, is it for people who have no earnigs, is it for people on minimum wage, how do you define islanders, someone who is born here, someone who moved here ten years or more, either way its a nightmare because of discrimination legislation. Then the biggest issue, there are very few if any social house builders,so the council has to pay builders the market rate, then the council is under regulation to get value for money for the money they spend, so the rents must reflect that.