A major Ryde development is back before planners as its future looks set to be determined once again.
Despite being approved nearly 2 years ago, the future of West Acre Park is still undecided as the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee prepares to meet.
The application has been in waiting since July 2021, due to legal matters. At a meeting in March, councillors were left confused by issues concerning the loss of curlew habitat.
Some members of the committee believed they had to determine a condition surrounding mitigating factors for the curlew — including an alternative green space — but were told that was not the case.
The entire 473-home West Acre Park development is therefore up for reconsideration along with the conditions for curlews. That means the planning committee could, among other options, grant approval for the site again or refuse the major development, proposed by Captiva Homes.
Work has been unable to start on the 473 homes as final details were being ironed out which meant, legally, permission could not yet be granted. The site, if approved, would expand on the already built 88 homes at West Acre Park.
The planning committee will meet at 16:00 today (Tuesday).
Just refuse it. It’s not needed. The council should be building not outsiders. Build for need not for greed.
Who’s gives one about curlews, Captiva ‘homes’ have got millions in profits to make of building their boxes and selling them at ‘affordable for overners’ prices, and there’s people who comment on here who think this is somehow supposed to make housing more affordable.
Guess you’re not homeless then?
The Planning Committee should be focusing their collective minds on the up and coming Planning reforms. They need to strangle this urban sprawl once and for all. Same as Pennyfeathers – Developers and their IOW Planning cronies need be told that the scale of these mass housing estates are not appropriate; not wanted and not sustainable for the Island.
It WILL go ahead all a ploy to make it ‘look’ like planners care and listen.
Ryde is not the only placed ruined by mass building as the resulting extra people will all drive, all need doc’s, schooling, dentists, energy usage, water, sewage, land fill etc etc.
It has all been said, but as the developers top councillors and all those ‘making’ from such pay private health care, private dentistry, and all live miles away in leafy quite lanes, and could not care less about the ‘plebs’ real problems.
Yet we are supposed to just keep on accepting the unacceptable and keep paying more and more council tax to see our living standards drop, whilst all the above grow ever richer on the destruction of not only our Island, but our lives.
If the planners didn’t care about 3 generations of a farming family losing their home and livelihood even when the youngest member of the family appealed to them to save the family business as it was his future, I’d be very surprised if they gave curlews any consideration!
Different developer to Pennyfeathers so expect different result.
Hope I’m wrong.
This whole affair has been sickening from the start.
The horrendous treatment of the Holiday family, the highly dubious procedures in the first instance at the planning committee. Adding also,Captiva conveniently not mentioning the Curlews in their original application. The whole thing stinks.
The alternative was to turn the farm into a Community farm and educational Centre. That would have been something Ryde could have been proud of, but I rather suspect pigs will fly first before this Council listens to the opinions of it’s Island residents…
Lets hope if the application is accepted, it will go to Judicial Review.