A new housing development has been proposed on the outskirts of Newport, which could see some 46 homes or more built just off Long Lane.
Weymouth-based company Betterment Properties have submitted plans for 46 homes — 1-bed flats and 2, 3 or 4-bed houses — on Buckbury Lane, next to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, off Long Lane.
The official number of homes, however, has not been decided and 46 is only a rough figure put to the Isle of Wight Council to demonstrate how the site could be used.
If 46 properties were built, a third — or 16x 1-bed flats — would be affordable.
Outline plans have been submitted for the site, only seeking permission for access to the site and whether a residential development would be acceptable in that location.
Other matters considered necessary by planners, including the appearance, landscaping, layout and scale, would all be determined through a later application.
Planning agent, BCM, on behalf of Betterment Properties, said in documents the site is ‘suitable, available and deliverable’ for new housing. It also said it would not have a negative impact on existing residential amenities, trees, ecology, highways or foul and surface water drainage infrastructure.
You can view the application, 22/02032/OUT, on the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 16th December.
Will there be any new schools or doctors surgeries for the 100 new residents? Of course not, so life just gets worse for the rest of us while the developers make millions in profits.
What’s a doctor? Oh yes it’s what we don’t see anymore.
I can’t work out how you can see a doctor at the hospital but since the beginning of covid seeing a gp is like winning the lotto non existent
Excellent news, dilute the inbred gene pool with more mainlanders and people from across the globe, we desperately need it.
You really are a tool mark – how about you move somewhere else – we do not need your anti islander insults here. If you want your way of life and culture diluted, then move to another country, where you will be the minority and you will be expected to toe the line or be kicked out, or worse.
those that continue to live here, yet bad mouth the islanders, really need to realise – they look really stupid for staying in a place that they don’t like.
What’s wrong with being in a minority? Do you treat us differently or something?
Except you aren’t an islander.
It’s the Overners who are doing all the sensible jobs, not the locals.
and council should say…
go and ruin Weymouth greenfields if you like, but you aren’t building here…plus infrastructure can’t cope
Mainland developers see the Island as an easy touch for a quick profit. They know our planning unit will approve almost anything.
We are an easy touch, they know we do not have an Island plan. If the planners refuse it they will appeal and it will be granted by the inspectorate under sustainable development, it is the price we are paying for certain councillors not recommending the plan on the ground of too many housing allocations, in the mean time mainland developers are cashing in and getting planning to build the number of houses that the councillors are trying to stop. I find it soooooo frustrating.
There must be a limit on how many more houses the grid can take
We need more social housing…..not private!!!!
Yes maybe, but for working Island families not free homes for mainland benefit scrounging layabouts on more free handouts than a workman is earning,because that is who they will go to.
How do you get more money on benefits? Single person on Universal Credit gets just over £70 per week. How is that earning more than someone who is employed?
How do mainland people claiming benefits impact someone living on the Island?
So you haven’t seen them then? Bragging about poncing £70.000 on benefits, top of the range TV, gold bling, new cars, holidays twice a year, £900 phones, a TV with a screen so big it would piss Pearl & Dean off. Look around you, see who the haves and the have nots are. I used to work for a maintenance company who did work on their free houses. They know every trick in the book to ponce more and more money out of the system. A deliberate brat every year to claim even more money, a pair of houses being knocked into one to put them all in and bragging about their life style. Any new houses are for them not us.
Exactly this. Build social housing, no more private sale. Dilute the gene pool!
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No, No, No, No,ooooo (Unless of course it includes a new, fully staffed GP surgery, a totally independent waste disposal system. a new hospital etc, etc)
The developers should pay for increasing the capacity of the Island road system, the local sewerage works, new schools, more doctors surgeries etc. Why should the rest of us have to pay?
Come to the sunny isle of wight ….
Build what you like where you like …..
The planning committee will be happy to help you ….
Profit before infrastructure….
16 affordable guinea pig hutches!!!!
And the rest a lovely fat profit for the company not even island based ….
Just say NO !!!!!
Only 16 dwellings out of 46 would be affordable. This is a complete p*ss take.
This IOW Council need to wake up. Make 30 affordable dwellings for islanders only!!!!!!