2 Isle of Wight housing providers have reaffirmed their commitment to build a major affordable housing development on the edge of Newport.
New plans have recently been unveiled by Captiva Homes and Sovereign Network Group to develop Acorn Farm, on Horsebridge Hill, near St Mary’s Hospital.
In total 203 houses and flats are proposed – 72 flats for key workers and 131 homes for the open market.
Sovereign is on the verge of securing £30million which the 2 companies hope can be used to make the 131 homes designated as ‘affordable’.
The majority could be socially rented properties with the remainder being shared ownership opportunities. It is thought the 1st properties could be delivered in the next 2 years.
Legally, the funding cannot be handed over until planning permission is granted and a contract is signed, but Captiva says the housing association has board approval for the funding.
Sovereign has acknowledged the current shortage of affordable houses on the Island and has committed to creating more sustainable homes.
Jenny Grote, assistant director of new business growth for Sovereign, said, working with Captiva, they have been able to design a mix of affordable housing they believe is desperately needed.
Captiva’s chief executive, Iain Delaney said the properties could be a meaningful step forward in delivering affordable homes for Islanders.
The Island developers also said it was the 1st scheme in a long time that could deliver sustainable, manageable, energy-efficient affordable homes on the Island.
Having listened to local community needs, Captiva says it has incorporated a play park in plans and proposed the homes would be in a range of sizes and tenures to make them more accessible for Islanders.
It has also worked with the next-door Isle of Wight NHS Trust to create a cycle and footpath network, which will run through Horsebridge Hill to Dodnor Lane, opening up the link to the Newport Cowes cycle path.
Captiva is looking for feedback on its plans for Acorn Farm, which can be submitted through a consultation on its website: acornfarmnewport.co.uk
You can view the plans, 23/01538/FUL, on the Isle of Wight Council’s planning register. Comments can now be submitted until 3rd November.
Any houses built over here should and must only be for existing
iow residents…we can’t take no more mainlanders! Were heaving fgs
Your objection has no logical basis. By definition, existing IoW residents already have homes. Given that some of these flats/houses will be designated for key workers, this is obviously an attempt to entice hospital staff, teachers, and dentists to the island, which is clearly necessary.
Where did you get that idea from. There several thousand young (under 40) Islanders stuck living with parents or in awful (not to mention expensive) rents because there is no affordable housing available.
But it cannot be denied that we have a massive shortage of key workers.
Old people need significantly more healthcare resources than young people. As more and more geriatrics move here, so does the pressure on services.
Probably not the right day to print this when parts of the island are under water due to poor management of surface water!
If it gets flooded up there, we are all in deep trouble
Calculate this as a general rule of thumb. Each house built, equals it’s own weight in water that can’t drain away into the land which it is built on.
What a load of tripe! You just made this up Gaz.
No I did not. it. is a scientific fact, so butt out. Build a house on a plot of land, the water has nowhere to go, so it the floods the next available area it can find. You must be one of the planners allowing it to happen without proper surveys of the land. Why does Morton flood? Because houses were build on the land where the flood water drains. Bloody planners
The amount of water that infiltrates the soil is only a proportion of that received by the soil. The average footprint of a house in the UK is 76 square metres. Annual average rainfall in IoW is about 75 mm. So the amount of rain received by that surface area is about 7 cubic metres, which equals 7 tonnes. The average house in the UK weighs about 150 tonnes. Therefore, you are writing nonsense Gaz.
Garbage.
Cite your sources.
Captiva “said it was the 1st scheme in a long time that could deliver sustainable, manageable, energy-efficient affordable homes on the Island” – does this mean all the other Captiva developments aren’t?
Very well said. No one would be as critical they switched from developing green sites to brownfield sites.
I also find the description of Captiva as a local developer a little confusing. The registered address of the 5 officers and the company office address are all the same and it is a Poole address in Dorset.
What constitutes a local developer ?
I believe they reside here so why not have a registered address here ?
More concrete swallowing up green fields and wildlife habitat. How about develope the brownfield derelict sites first. More flooding to come.
A ghetto for benefit breeding freeloading locals and imported third world cretins to aid the demise of a once beautiful place and people
Not ruined for a while, but forever.
Enjoy the enrichment yet to arrive.
“a once beautiful place and people” – Steady on Jed, Isle of Wight people have never been known for their beauty. Quite the opposite in fact.
At least they don’t have to hide with just their eyes showing as certain types do, not have to in fuzz their hair in a vain attempt to attract attention while da bruvs find genuine beauty in Western women
Anyone no what time Tesco closes I ain’t got no bananas and need some know.
Panic over got some bananas down at LD.Bout a mango and a pineapple two all for less than three quid result.
Does the £30 million come from the tax payer? If so why are we subsidising people buying houses and captiva homes’s profits, with that money might as well go back to building council houses like we used to.
Well said Joe. I too wonder where this £30m is coming from. Council’s need to start building houses again. The developers and housing associations have only one motive -profit.
All the corporate planning applications include phrases like ‘affordable housing’ , ‘key worker flats’ and the like just to smooth the passage of the applications. Don’t be fooled planners. !
This application should be turned down.
Developers could find many disused commercial buildings and sites to repurpose and this would generally have public support. This is the way forward as it also removes derelict and unwanted eyesores and avoids large and impactful developments which put a strain on existing infrastructure.
Unfortunately, it’s become very difficult for local planners to turn down applications these days. The obligation to build a certain number of new houses is imposed on the council by central government. The planners have to have a pretty good reason for turning down applications.
traffic is already gridlocked from Cowes to Newport so all the money spent changing the layout near the Hos[pital to reduce the que by seven cars was a complete waste of time back to square one. Stop developing the island, they should stop the second homes and then there would be enough housing for everyone, Stop building for association to keep bringing people over here. Island people only or first on the list.be interesting to know how many people are in association homes but have moved from the mainland to occupy,I am sure all true islanders would all have enough houses if they had the priority as the island is there home.
I felt exactly the same when I lived in London.
I am a true Londoner who could not get a house owing to the people coming in from other areas. I’m sure all true Londoners would all have had enough houses if they had priority as London was their home… I had to bale out and move to the island so I could buy a cheap house.
Ohhhh, the irony….
Lets be honest, Captiva arent the slightest bit interested in supplying affordable homes, only their own bank account, and the flats for “key workers” are just an attempt to ensure planning approve the plans once again with no regard for the poor state of the Islands infrastructure.
Just what the Newport to Cowes road needs, people need to use their brain we don’t have the capacity for this many houses on this road ♂️
1 million visas dished out to the third world imports this year and the opposition vowing to increase that number significantly when they get in – all these taxpayer funded guests have got to be able to settle and refuse to integrate somewhere at your expense and the mainland is running out of room