Permission for 29 new homes to be built in Wootton has been granted.
The application for outline permission, submitted by Maritime and Provincial Ltd, was looking for 29 houses to be built behind houses on Station Road.
It had been met by fierce rejection from residents and Wootton Bridge Parish Council, which raised concerns over flooding, ecology and the greenfield nature of the site.
Councillor Barry Abraham, of the parish council, said the land was rich in species and its damp condition was crucial to the ecosystem and should not be given up to housing lightly.
Members of the committee shared residents’ concerns Station Road was busy and dangerous and asked if, in the future through a detailed application, provision for a cycle route along the road could be given.
Double yellow lines were also recommended along the stretch of Station Road, as the access point leads onto a blind bend.
Councillor Geoff Brodie said the issues with the application were balanced, weighing up highways and infrastructure concerns against the council’s presumption in favour of sustainable development and affordable housing provision. He said the application, should it come back with the 29 proposed houses, would provide 10 affordable properties, putting a roof over the heads of 10 Island families.
The plans were approved by 7 votes to 3, with 1 abstention.
A further application to determine the site’s appearance, scale, layout and landscape will be sent to the council in the future.
Bet you can’t guess which one’s are affordable housing from the plan.
Could you imagine sharing a wall with someone, how embarrassing.
I can not see the point of objecting to any house building on the island with a brainless planning department they are told what is there and they ignore it by playing dumb all they want is more houses to bring in more council tax for them to waste they dont give a f–k about the island and the so called affordable properties putting a roof over the heads of 10 Island families who can afford them what a load of crap
The planning office ignore residents’ objections. They are no more consequential in respect of the verdict than a victim statement in a court of law. The planning office is a tick-box dept of a tick-box bureaucratic culture..Residents and their concerns are irrelevant..
Omg ….
How do you sleep at night ????
Planning committee must be so comfortable……
Well they certainly will with all the extra council tax in their pension pot !!!!!
BROWN envelopes must be running short with all the yes yes yes build build builds going through !!!!!!
Where is Bob Seely ?????
Stop this building our infrastructure and services cannot cope now ….
How will it manage with all this extra unnecessary housing?????
Sadly, many if not most on here are too dim to see that as the UK accepts millions of newcomers to our shores, most of whom have large families, then the knock on effects is people move to this Island to escape town and villages which they no longer feel at home in.
This then means more houses are built here.
SEE the real issue and the reason why the Island is being ruined, whilst not directly a non Brit living in such, ask WHY many people choose the Island to live in now, and you too will find the truth, unacceptable though many will find it.
Each one does NOT come with a home, but ALL will eventually gain one
No sh*t Sherlock.
We are not dim, but we get shouted down by the wokes for apparently being racist.
And then get deleated or banned from posting. x
Remember golly gate.
Welcome to the ALAMO.
Wootton soon to go from a desirable location to a blot on the landscape.
Wait until the quarry is up and running. Just a mess
No point in giving a point of view as the council make up their minds long before it reaches the public to vote . Money, money, money , it’s a rich man’s world. They won’t be satisfied until every last bit of greenery , landscape and wildlife is gone . How about facing the other issues this island faces and funding that . No of course not that would actually mean putting in time and effort and earning your pocket bulging salaries.
Why do they build affordable next to premium – No one in their right mind is going to pay top wack for a house only to find their neighbours, are getting a cheap deal and within two years, the whole place has turned into a dump, with benefit sponging deadbeats hanging around and those top wack houses are now worth less than originally sold for.
some socialist do gooder, trying a bit of social engineering – which always fails – the successful, always segregate theirselves from the failures.
look forward to less greenfields, less clean air, less open spaces, more congestion, more deadbeats, more spongers and worthless councillors.
It’s the new world order, there will be only rich and poor, the government feeds off the rich so of course build more and more.
There’s no such thing as affordable housing, to anyone who is on minimum wage or jobless etc that already equals a tent.
All the houses that are swamping the island are for profit and not to help any family or person with little money
Please quote me in ten years…..
The worst bit is the so called poor pay off the rich people’s mortgages through renting but can’t get accepted for one themselves
What a damning indictment…..
Here we go again, cue the wood clad, tiny garden, model yacht in window, up to the eyeballs in debt, range rover parked badly, haven’t got two pennies to rub together, bringing nothing to society brigade.
10 “affordable” houses, nothing to stop overners snapping them up, no doubt in time the 10 will be reduced to 5.
Affordable for the first owner only. Then resold for large profit.
Yes Dicky D
The owner at Bembridge of ‘affordable’ house had clauses in which said it had to be offered to an Islander for a predetermined time scale, I think a year.
So, all he has done is put it on the market, but refuses all offers until the higher offer after a year (from a likely mainland buyer) is met.
The price is supposed to be set to remain at a certain percentage BELOW current market value, but, like him, IF someone offers more then you are allowed to take it.
Another irresponsible decision. What part of ‘The infrastructure can’t take any more’ can’t they understand.
I think we all need to contact Bob Seely. Our opinion as island residents, needs to be heard. No point in being a ‘keyboard warrior’ on this site or on Facebook. It most likely will not make a difference, but we all need to contact our island MP and make our thoughts and concerns matter.
Yes, we all know we only have 1 struggling hospital, practically non existent supply of NHS dentists, our road infrastructure will not cope with hundreds more residents cars, school places, waste water and sewage is already being released into the Solent because the sewage treatment works cannot cope. Moaning on here is not the answer.
First you have to find “Seldom seen”putting up wanted posters probably a very good idea!although quite often located in Bembridge tugging his forelock at the great and good making sure no new houses go up in this area!!stuff the rest of Island unless it’s Brighstone of course!
We are not happy about this at all, at the moment we are looking over our fence and seeing a field with horses, now the planning permission has been granted even having a lot of objection, we will be boarder in the new development! It seems where there’s greenery the big wigs want to build!!!
Looking at the people who comment on this site you all want the island to die.say no to everything eg no housing no wind farms or wave power no gravel extraction or change on Ryde sea front no motorcycle racing or cycle racing. live in this century or go and live somewhere else. most of you probably were never even born here.
Well said
Looking at your comment ding, it would appear you are either in a priviledged postion, not having the risk of ruination of your lifestyle, OR that you are just some pleb who cares nothing for the Island, its beauty, its difference from the mainland, it’s history, its rural balance between holiday trade and farming.
Few dare mention it but the large scale population increase into the UK has dire know on effects for the Island, as people up-sticks and move here as they know longer feel ‘at home’ in a mainland town they know longer feel at ease with.
It will get worse as the dim welcome in ever more and the ever more have ‘ever more’
No, we want to protect the island from the diseased population of the north island. Simple, I was born here, but lived in London for 20 years.
So this life experience makes me want to protect my children and I want them to grow up with there own kin, and not be a minority in there own country.
What is so wrong with this statement.
It is not woke. End of.
Can I have one of those houses please.
I’m a born and bred on the Isle of Wight
It’s not your fault darling.