An extraordinary meeting will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) to decide the future of major housing development in Ryde.
Last month, the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee ran out of time while deliberating the 904-home Pennyfeathers scheme, so no final decision had been made.
Pennyfeathers as a housing scheme has been on the cards for over 15 years now with the first stages of planning permission being granted in 2017.
This secondary application — to determine the access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale of the development — has been lodged with the council since 2020.
At the meeting held last month, there was criticism from some committee members that irrelevant questions were being asked about matters that had been approved many years ago. It meant they did not get to ask their questions about the scheme and so another special meeting was called to determine this application, ahead of the next set planning committee date.
There are no other planning applications on the agenda for tomorrow, the meeting can run for a maximum of 4 hours if it is deemed necessary.
You can see the agenda or watch the meeting at 14:00 via the council’s website here: https://iow.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=163&MId=1731&Ver=4.
Not needed never was.
Why build more homes in Ryde.
The Island cannot control the morons who park on pavements
along Great Preston Road
It’s about time IW Council towed away the yellow Vauxhall Corsa
that thinks it ok to park on the pavement causing an obstruction to other motorists and pedestrians.
Pavements are for people to walk on, not for vehicles to park on.
IS THE WHOLE ISLAND IDIOTS or just the owner of the yellow Vauxhall Corsa
Paul is aware it is the S.A lady, so no need to use other neighbours names as to blame them for your ‘problem’
His young daughter with child, has great hardship in walking very far, due to personal problems, hence she sometimes needs to pull over onto the pavement to drop off her young daughter.
You are a selfish unpleasant being, who is clearly odd, and unhappy living here, so perhaps it is you who ought to relocate elsewhere, for you then ‘may’ be happier (though doubtful) and the rest of the road certainly would be. Think it over and have more time for those with disabilities as you one day soon may have to contend with such issues yourself then and only then will you realise how nasty you have become.
I care for people’s safety unlike persons who park on pavements.
Just stop parking on pavements and that will be the end of this nonsense.
Island Roads are placing double yellow lines outside the old council houses soon
then it will be law not to park on the pavement
Any decent guy would make room on their drive for a child if they
had difficulties.
Pavements are for pedestrians, dog walkers and mum’s with prams.
Not for vehicles.
This country is so different to sensible countries who know right from
wrong.
I wish island echo would unsubscribe you your getting very boring now waste of space ..obviously you need a job as you’ve nothing better to do.
Christian, this is an unpleasant being in every sense of the word. It has no need to work as children so sponges off the state, tax credits fund it’s home, it rent and council tax, and pays for it’s offspring.
Yet it still despises a working man and his disabled daughter as they have a drive, and it hasn’t.
Very mentally messed up person who uses various names of my neighbours trying to blame them for it’s own mental health obsession. South Africa must be so happy the day it decided to leave.
Someone needs to let people know how unsafe island roads and pavements are.
And let me guess they will spend the evening answering the same questions as last time?
This farce is getting tiring.
St Mary’s cannot cope now, so why build more properties.
There are enough derelict properties in Sandown alone that
could be refurbished and could be made into flats etc
Why keep building more rabbit hutches on the Island.
Let people have some greenery.
The best thing to do with the land earmarked for Pennyfeathers is
to turn it into a country park, there is a shortage of parks on the Island.
A park will not overwhelm St Mary’s.
Exactly there were enough houses when they built mine. No more!
There is the derelict holiday camp at puckpool available for development but nothing is happening there.
Yes it is, executive houses, £500k upwards.
Good point.
What a beautiful location too.
There are so many places that could be used, the old Ice Skating Rink in
Ryde and the old Hotel in George Street that is sitting empty.
Disgusting to even consider this where we in the UK are forced to build on our greenfield sites to indirectly cater for those who should not even be in the UK.
For whilst low numbers of non British will eventually fill these homes, those Brits who will, are often displaced from their home towns, feeling outsiders in places they have lived all their lives, thus come here to escape the influx.
As no newcomer to the UK arrives with land, and few with the money to buy a home, then it forces prices up, and ruins our beautiful countryside for often ungrateful troublesome people.
Time to address the ‘real issue’ here, so where is our MP?
Bob’s probably in Ukraine or having a Barbie in Seaview
As Johson himself would say a useless ******
I’ll make a tidy little sum when this gets built, I’ll have you know I v.
I V Searle, what is your problem with non British people? Why do you have this wrong impression that no-one comes here with any money? What influx do you speak of? You seem a very bitter person, with no knowledge of the real world.
This development is fundamentally wrong and should be rejected. This area doesn’t have enough GPs, getting an NHS dentist is nearly impossible and St Marys is full. The nearby roads cannot cope now, and with brown field sites unused nearby this development is nothing short of environmental vandalism!
The Island lacks brains, it is driven by money.
The Island does not care about ones needs
They are happy to fill the Island with concrete and
keep building on it.
I am surprised they have not filled the Solent with cement and
built on it.
What a terrible destructive scheme.
This is not for Islanders, as no way are so many homes needed. This will only encourage more benefit breeding hutches, and when those are full to capacity and the state paid for offspring start to ‘reproduce’ from puberty onwards, then an even larger green area will need to be destroyed forever.
HMG need to return illegal migrants quickly as not only are we now housing them, but most have large amounts of children, and often with several partners, all adding to housing pressures and massive costs which then effect areas like the Island as the indigenous move away from unrecognisable towns and villages and our own in need of a home suffers.
And it will encourage more uneducated local idiots
to park on pavements like they do
outside the old council houses along Great Preston Road.
Most locals interbreed so they will need extra houses to house them all.
Stop making such stupid, derogatory comments. And no, before you reply with another stupid comment, I moved over from the mainland to live on this beautiful island many years ago to leave the crime and fast pace of life behind. Concentrate on the Pennyfeathers debate or shut up!
Think you mean inbred, which is correct.
A hutch would probably be more suitable if you have a breeding pair.
Just say NO …
Our infrastructure cannot cope now let alone with 904 new homes!!!!!
Do the planners actually read the comments???
Do they have private health care ???
Probably!!!!
Private dentist ??? Probably….
Ooh just a minute how much
council tax will it raise ???? Fat cat pension pot…..filling up nicely.
Ah yes .
NO MORE FREE HOUSING FOR WASTE OF SPACE SMACK RATS AND THEIR FERAL BRATS. We have already seen the results, uncontrollable vandalism and arson on a daily basis that will just poison another area. Why should such low life scum be issued with a free home, with free handouts to snort and swill in all day, While working families struggle to survive on just the basics. If there must be free housing it should be given to working families as a reward who are paying into the system, Not those leaching from it and living it up on never questioned benefits that are more than working families take home wages
the council either listen to the people who live here or they are out of work next election.
the likes of pink and co, that are hell bent on destroying our greenfields and making the overcrowding, pollution and demands on services worse – may find direct action coming their way from aggrieved locals, if they are not careful.
Oh, is every home proposed for Pennyfeathers going to have solar panels on the roof?
Or are we going to build solar farms on acres of fields that could be used for growing food?
Madness and so short sighted.
The IW Council could not make a sensible decision if they stayed there all day.
Very true, thankfully many of them are working from home.
The council rabbits on about making the Island a green haven therefore this CO2 belching scheme should be rejected and the land used to produce food so our food has a less CO2 producing amount of transport.
Just looking at the picture at the top of the article then there is only one just conclusion – it must not be built on.
Green spaces like this are the lungs of the planet. The Council Planning Committee should take a long hard and informed look at this picture before they come to a decision that puts another nail in the coffin of future of the planet..
It is too valuable to be lost. Once lost green spaces are gone forever – future generations deserve better.
Very true.
They are getting ready for the 15 minute cities, hence their plan to build this not
needed monsteratry.
monsteratry?? Sounds like a religious retreat for the monstrously afflicted. Could come in handy judging by some characters seen on the streets in Ventnor, Wroxall, Freshwater, etc.
It is just a few fields of grass. The green desert. Plant it up with trees and get it back to nature.
How many more times do the ‘authorities’ need to be told that the present infrastructure cannot support these large developments. One simple figure, each GP in a practice should not have more than 1,800 people on his books. (This a Government figure) Most,of the few, Island practices must be way over this number already.
Quite sickening that they allow all that beautiful green land to be ruined forever… Who in their right mind ever started to allow this ?? Insane…
The nearby residents started this. A handful of residents that bought properties near to the existing dairy farm, complained about the smell of cows, and flies. Their complaints were upheld and the farm was forced to close down by local residents. The same ones who are probably campaigning to stop the closure of Westridge farm as they realised the consequences of their actions, being, if you force a farm to close, the land cannot be used for agriculture anymore, so of course a developer will buy it.
The residents of Great Preston Road are to blame for this whole saga.
Very good point, I said this all along, people moaned about farm smells, council shut farm down and bought the land! Self inflicted situation!
Imagine how much produce could be grown on that land, and sold on to people on this Island, instead of all the veg shops closing down.. add that to the farm up the road, fresh milk for Ryde plus… But NO… just let the people here suffer, bring more people here.. not enough food on shelves at present, imagine if this goes ahead..
I watched the last meeting. One councillor asked would the”affordable” houses be on a 3 tier system. 1st Ryde residents, 2nd Island residents, 3rd Open to all. The answer??…….NO.
Build for need not for greed
THE ISLAND DOESN’T NEED OR WANT PENNYFEATHERS. Why can’t the IOW Planning Department throw it out and say NO, the development is too large for all the infrastructure to cope. We, the residents of the island can see it, why can’t they?
It should not be about lining the pockets of the developers. Our one and only hospital barely Copes now, the roads will be grid locked, it will be ruination for the island.
There’ll be a mad scramble for parking on Great Preston road when this is built, you mark my words!
They should just get on with create jobs and houses for people
The Island has a declining birthrate year-on-year.
We’ve been told previously by this Council that there are too many schools for the number of children on the Island.
These homes aren’t for Islanders, we don’t need thousands of new homes, they’re for new arrivals – either rejects from other Councils or economic migrants from Albania, Romania and the rest.
The council wants to build these homes to satisfy the government quota on new builds. The quota is not based on local needs but instead it is a coarse nationwide strategy. There is no local need for more houses but building companies can point at the quota as a reason for their plans. They will struggle to shift them in the current market. Rightmove has 1860 houses for sale today on the island and sales aren’t happening because of high interest rates. Building more houses on the island will just lead to a collapse in house prices. It would make more sense encouraging redevelopment of Sandown because people would be happier buying a reasonably priced apartment with a stunning view rather than an overpriced house in a falling market.
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