Isle of Wight developer Captiva Homes has received planning consent for their updated application for 107 new homes in Godshill.
The site at on land at Scotland Farm had already been granted full planning permission to an alternative applicant in 2004 for a restricted Continuing Care Community of up to 143 units, only 10 of which would have been affordable housing.
The new approved scheme, which is being marketed as ‘Lily Cross Farm’, will include 107 first time buyer and family type 1, 2, 3, and 4 bedroom homes and a significant increase to 39 affordable homes specifically for local residents, 70% of which would be available to rent.
Captiva Homes say their scheme will provide much more appropriate homes for the needs of the local community. It has also been confirmed that every homes will be built to a SAP ‘A’ rating, meaning they will be highly energy efficient and cost effective to run.
The team behind the development is Captiva Homes, a small, local housebuilding business, who regularly promote 80% of their reservations come from current Island residents and their average prices are lower than Isle of Wight average house prices.
Captiva Homes owner, Bembridge-based James Pink, has said:
“We are delighted to have received planning consent for our Lily Cross Farm development in Godshill. Construction of these much needed homes can now commence immediately with the first being ready for occupation by the end of this year.
Article continues below this advertisement “The team at Captiva Homes, as local people, felt a real commitment to this site, to ensure maximum protection and responsible development of the land by Islanders who care about our community.
“We are excited to create a community of homes that integrates more appropriately within the surroundings than the previously approved scheme”
For more information about Captiva Homes see www.captivahomes.co.uk.
how are we going to accommodate all these extra people with their health & dental needs ? Aren’t we just adding to the already strained NHS, also it’s an awful lot of extra traffic even if they only have 1 car each let alone 2. The planning department are absolutely going to spoil this beautiful Island I grew up on.
As said before, Captiva, the planners and higher paid Councillors don’t CARE.
For they are only interested in the huge sums of life changing cash coming their way, and NONE of these will live near the areas they ruin.
ALL of those above will have PRIVATE health, dental care and private education for their offspring to continue milking the plebs so they grow richer into the next generation too.
IF their area of the Island becomes ruined then they will retire to some beautiful area of the country or world to enjoy to the max their ill conceived gains, caring nothing for the ruination they have caused to land, and the real Islanders, by over building and filling the Island with unsuitable beings to destroy our way of life
Who owns the land. Flux or bull. £here we come.the homes that are being built will last twenty years. But the damage will last for ever.
Does this include the new doctors surgery but not the doctors to run it?
One expects they are waiting for one of the dingy arrivals to be a doctor. Problem is, they have to sift through the hundreds of spongers, criminals and useless to find the needle in the haystack. The BBC are good at highlighting the decent ones, and ignoring the countless who aren’t.
So keep 111 on speed dial for a few more years imo
This is how Hitler started.
Demonize a minority to unite the majority.
Did you vote for the Ukip child molester (allegedly).
Very cheap shot Terrence !
Twat.
A rapidly growing minority, and , in many places , including prisons no longer even that.
Perhaps the Victims, the Police, the Judge and the Jury are all biased. Or maybe they, like Roy Walkers phrase , they ‘say what they see’
You keep imagining plans for a ‘green’ solar furnace and we will keep saying it how it is.
It was a given, as the lodge well knows.
Isn’t this just satisfying an existing demand for housing ,rather than an influx of overlanders as people like to call them.
So the extra demand on services will be small.
Really…. where they going to park their cars… where they going to get food.. but just think how much extra the Ferry companies will earn each year…
The Island is run like the Government, it’s on an who you know basis to
what gets done.
Lol
More retiring boomers to look after, whilst our own youngsters have to move up north.
Personally, I’d rather have the retired people moving here than the scum that the Council seems keen to inflict upon us.
How many people retiring here from the mainland in their 60s, 70s and 80s do you read about vandalising property or using knifes, or inflicting violence, or dealing drugs? Compare that with the number in their 20s and 30s who the Council have brought here.
Very true.
So many backward locals think it’s ok to park their vehicles on pavements
along Great Preston Road, Ryde.
At least up North that sort of behaviour would not be allowed.
The scum on the Island are local and are born on the Island.
This is a tough one if these homes were for working families and families on low incomes to have a decent home I would support it ,but when these homes are bought by private equity and pension funds to rent out I get cross ,developers should provide a doctors clinic with dental facilities,they should adequate residents meeting centre with full facilities and adequate bus stops ,the open green sites should be incorporated within the housing development, but the council are under extreme pressure by the government to fill the housing void .
Perhaps IF the Gov weren’t so overly generous making having children a paying lifestyle choice then countless immigrants wouldn’t be coming here, MAKING the housing situation worse.
We have more than enough of our own freeloaders doing that, without those whose parents,grandparents etc have never paid a bean into this country, but happy to take everything on offer.
Countless immigrants are in the fields picking and cutting veg ,those immigrants are cleaning the shops and offices ,those immigrants are ready to see you in doctors surgeries,and busy A&E s ,my parents both came to the uk ,worked paid there taxes and became a teacher and a GP ,I look at ryde and Newport and see healthy British young men doing nothing but waiting for the DWP to pay them ,I think not all roads leads to immigrants we work ok
How much is ‘ an affordable’ home ??
How about a proper sports centre included… so the new kids in the block will have someplace to go, other than hanging out in town, drugging, thieving etc…
And so the saga continues.
Sh..ter developer makes money so can do what they like. Sleazy corrupt council gets backhander. They both trash the community, countryside and infrastructure. Job done ! End of story ? No way……they’re moving on to a neighbourhood near you!
Another 117 free homes for the smack rat spongers, another lovely area turned into a sh*thole, more flooding because the water can’t soak in through concrete, and more boll*cks about ”affordable homes” that no one wants to buy on a life long mortgage surrounded by scum. More corrupt hand shakes and brown envelopes and greed.
Why would they be surrounded by scum?
It was only the mud that was brown in those fields !!!!