iWight Developments – led by the Isle of Wight Council – has announced details of a public information day to be held in East Cowes later this month, to discuss its recent planning application for up to 165 new homes on the vacant Crossways site off Whippingham Road.
The CECAMM Centre will host an open, public drop-in event on Wednesday 16th October from 16:00-20:00, offering another opportunity for local people to review Crossways’ housing proposals and pose their questions to the iWight Developments team.
An outline planning application submitted in August 2019 proposes a mix of 1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom homes on the former agricultural land at Crossways, with up to 58 homes (35%) earmarked as affordable, alongside a generous green space allocation.
The homes at Crossways will be built off-site using modern methods of construction, meaning less disruption to residents during building works. The homes will be highly energy-efficient, making them cheaper and more environmentally friendly to run in the long term.
iWight Developments, a partnership between Isle of Wight Council and Public Sector Plc, was formed in 2016 to work alongside the Council’s team in creating value from public sector owned land and property. Several projects have already been identified to help build better, more affordable housing for families and young professionals across the Island.
A spokesperson at iWight Developments, said:
“Since submitting a planning application for new homes at Crossways, we have listened to a broad range of views from the local community, which included attending a public event at East Cowes Town Hall in September.
“We recognise that some residents in East Cowes still have unanswered questions about our proposals for new homes at Crossways. Our public information day on October 16th will provide more detail on our exciting plans, as well as the opportunity to pose questions to the iWight Developments team face-to-face.”
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Further information on the proposals and the information day can be found here.
Brilliant, glad to see the island is finally being developed, Great news.
No it isn’t martin – go back to london if you want an overcrowded, polluted concrete jungle. We will oppose every development going as the island cannot support any more people turning up here.
Who are you to tell me to go back to where I come from? You horrible little bigot!
clear off martin – go back to london – you came here knowing that this is an island, with an island way of life – this is our way of life, we are not changing it so that those who move from polluted, crowded, expensive, concrete jungles like london can have a little london here.
Forget it – ain’t happening.
martin – you are the bigoted one, for turning up here on the island and demanding that we change our way of life to suit you.
You are typical of the self entitled individuals that insult everyone because they won’t bend to your way of doing things.
We like the island the way it is, take your bigoted views back to london with you, as they are not welcome here.
Is there really any point having an open event, as the decision to build has surely already been taken. This council will never listen to reasoning, as they are driven by developers money. No thought for the services not being able to cope.
It is time the extinction rebellion type organisations were advised that building more structures on land, increases pollution, increases rubbish, increases the damage to the environment by the very fact that natural habitats are destroyed, oxygen producing trees and plant life are destroyed, more co2 in the air and the ecosystem suffers, all for corporate profits.
Think I will remind them myself.
This development is ludicrous, it’s the last piece of green space or field between East Cowes and Whippingham and that is going to be covered in concrete, tar-mac and bricks. Then hundreds of vehicles and it’s pollution.
The plan initially had around 86 homes, this figure rose to around 154 or so and now its over 160.
The field hasn’t got any bigger.
How is it that the planning for the site has greatly increased in housing numbers ?
The already overcrowded estate of Hawthorne Meadows which is still expanding significantly, affects the local wildlife.
The environmental impact of this estate is very worrying to say the least.
Rain water can not penetrate the built on ground to sufficiently refill the natural ground water levels, in summer the temperature within the Hawthorne estate is obviously a few degrees warmer than an open natural area like a field or grassland.
East Cowes is being over developed, in fact the Isle of Wight is being over developed what with the current development plan to build on the island.
If people do not turn up to these ‘open days’ to express their negative views and put pen to paper to record their views then the council and building companies will have the impression that no one cares so it’s okay to totally destroy a natural wildlife environment and build on it.
What new jobs would be created by building more homes other than jobs for builders who I would think many come from places other than the Isle of Wight. That isn’t a long term job, it’s contracted work for a set time then they will move on to another site. Slowly but very surely destroying a natural countryside that many people currently enjoy, people also visit the island to escape into the countryside, away from built up areas.
The Isle of Wight is an island, it’s full of natural beauty but this is under threat.
We need to stop all this nonsense of nipping away at the countryside bit by bit, slowly destroying natural habitat and damaging the environment.
If people want cities and housing estates, your totally free to go live on the mainland as someone here has already rightly stated.
The natural surroundings takes years, decades or thousands of years to developed into what we are lucky to have around us today to enjoy.
We must do all we can within the law to stop these building applications otherwise the Isle of Wight with its natural beauty and natural habitat for the wildlife will disappear forever.
I do hope many will attend and express their views on this and all developments.
They are considering building over the last sacred part of the religious Grange of Beaulieu at East Shamlord (Dugdale). Preserved in places, streets and ancient rights of ways, such as ‘Grange’ ‘Little Shamblers’, ‘Cross’ways and Monks Walk.