A public consultation on plans to build up to 50 houses in Puckpool on the outskirts of Ryde has been extended until 19th June.
Developer WYG is asking for feedback from residents on plans to build up houses off Puckpool Hill, opposite the former Harcourt Sands holiday park, before the finalised application is submitted to the Isle of Wight Council.
In an online public exhibition, WYG said it was working towards an application for the houses, a public open space – retaining the existing pond – and associated landscaping.
WYG said it chose the site for the houses as it has been identified in the draft Island Planning Strategy as being ‘sustainably located and suitable for development’ and said the application would be able to assist the council in meeting the housing need of Islanders.
Illustrations of the site show what it could hold — a mixture of detached and semi-detached houses, of multiple sizes that WYG say have been identified to meet the local need.
An outline planning application will be submitted, once views have gathered, for only the principle of the development and details of access to the site, with other matters being decided in a further reserved matters application.
According to its timeline, WYG is looking to submit the application in the Autumn before starting work on site in 2022, with aims to have full occupation of the houses by 2024.
The deadline for feedback has been pushed back by a further 2 weeks as the company say residents asked for it.
To view the proposals and to find out how to submit feedback you can visit the company’s website at https://www.wyg.com/planning/consultations/puckpool-hill.
no.. yet more people, more rubbish, more pollution, more cars, more benefit hutches, more road usage, meaning more tailbacks, more CO2 and for what……just so the council can get more money in its coffers and developers get more cash in their pockets….after which they will clear off somewhere else.
This island does not need more and more damned houses being built – where does it end? when there is no green space left..when we are propping up houses, hanging over cliff edges with stilts on the beach because we have run out of land space.
The island has a biosphere status and their is supposed to be a climate emergency, as declared by the council – so why are more hutches being built and wrecking more of the environment
Very much agree with you
Any new houses built here should be for local kids getting a first house or for working families like police NHS etc
Not for mainland overspill!
NIMBY
If we have to have more houses etc; why can’t they build on Harcourt Sands site as it clearly needs sorting as there was yet another fire on the site last week I think and the place is heavily vandalised. Leave the greenery alone as we are losing too much from our green and pleasant island as it is.
This really must stop. There is already a large development opposite off Appley Road (West Acre), and the archery field nearby has also been the target for development. And I won’t mention the word Penny…. What is this obsession with Ryde and building? Just because it has transport links, it is folly to concentrate all new housebuilding in one place. Plans to increase the population by such a massive extent mean social problems associated with the town are only going to get significantly worse, and damage its already poor reputation for deprivation, crime and god knows what else. It is also meant to be a tourism hotspot and biosphere. These planners need to widen their imaginations they really do. Hopeless and a bleak future for this once attractive Victorian and Edwardian seaside town. Tourism describes it as the gateway to the island, becoming a dumping ground.
No amount of green space seems safe from developers these days. Watch out all you Seaview 2nd Homers, you’ll soon be living in part of Ryde!
I wonder merrymeat if seaviwes council tax will come down, or ares will go up when we are as one. Bert says up
This area does need doing something with. Perhaps another hospital or some other facility to deal with our presently overcrowded island. But we definitely don’t want any more houses for mainland offloads. WE ARE FULL UP.
I expects most of them houses will end up full of mainlanders from them big estates you see on the telly. Then none of us will feel safe here no more. I feel sorry for the youngsters here, as when we was young all these drugs, molesters and knifes weren’t common place like it is over there now. We don’t want it here.
All the councillors who push this forwards won’t be living anywhere near it you can be sure of that. We needs that swammpy boy here protesting.
No more houses on the Isle of Wight.
Maybe its time for all new large developments granted permission to include a clause that ensures new houses are only sold to those who have been resident on the Island for a minimum period of say 24 months.
Yet more and more houses, they are being built all over the Island.
How many will remain empty??
People can only afford them if they have jobs and where are all the new jobs coming from?
At the moment, all we are hearing of is job losses all over the place.
Are they going to have a buy one get one free offer to fill them all?