The Isle of Wight Green Party is urging the public to submit their objections to the proposed 475 housing development on land at Westridge Farm, Ryde as the deadline for the public consultation ends this Friday (11th September).
The Green Party executive committee has submitted their own formal objection detailing the loss of prime agricultural land and wildlife habitat, the lack of analysis of flood risk and impact of climate change, and the dependence on car transport for the development.
In addition, the local party are contacting members and supporters to urge them to object to the plans, and are holding the Conservative Government and Isle of Wight Council responsible for the current crisis in planning regulations which will only lead to even more completely inappropriate development in our countryside and our towns.
Vix Lowthion, IW Green Party spokesperson, says:
“This is a catastrophic failure at the heart of our Council and national government. Our local Island Plan still is incomplete, plus the Boris Johnson government have pledged a post-covid bonfire of planning regulations. This means that our Island has now defaulted to the pro-development National Planning Policy Framework, which has significant consequences for a rural isolated community such as the Isle of Wight.”
Daniel James, Chair of the IW Greens, continues:
“We know how badly local people need new homes, but building huge estates on prime agricultural land is not the solution. Our MP’s intervention in our local council’s process of housing allocation has led to strategic paralysis. The lack of clarity of figures in terms of our five year housing supply has removed the barriers to inappropriate development all across the Island.
“Meanwhile, the Conservative Government is now proposing massive increases in house building. This may be a win-win for short term speculators, but Islanders and our countryside will certainly be the losers.”
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Deadline for the public consultation on this Planning Application 20/01061/FUL is this Friday 11th September.
THE GREEDY —– WILL GET AWAY WITH BUILDING THESE PROPERTIES.
Tickled PINK they will be.
We could all protest, make no difference, it is money that controls and motivates, not need, pure greed.
Once the Island is ruined, they will upsticks, and live wherever suits them, then being well able to afford to, so they have no love or respect of the Island or it’s people, just see a wonderful lifestyle for themselves and their families and an easy way to fund that at others cost.
I think you’re depressed Zak.
Don’t confuse honesty with depression.
Unsure how long you have lived here but if it has been years, then you should have seen the downturn in so many areas on the Island.
Filling the Island with more poor will not improve life here, as it hasn’t for the UK following the same importation of masses of poor.
Masses of desperate people needing work is only good for employers, as was real slavery where people worked for nothing. The bosses gain, but all the indigenous either had to work for nothing to compete, or starve.
The UK should have gone hi-tech as machinery does not require a home, a free education, nor health treatment and a pension. Nor, when it is not required does it still need such costs met forever.
Now we have so many people filling the UK, and come a huge downturn many of those ‘many’ will be jobless and come to places like here, as why be unemployed in a horrid location when you can get the same here in a new social paid for home.
Thus adding to our overcrowding, crime, doctors hospital queues, schools, and quality of life, plenty of reasons to be depressed I guess, for time, will make it all worse, never better.
I agree John, simples just give the council a bit of dosh and they can build anywhere.. Look at the sad Westridge Cross junction, those people forced out of their homes, now left derelect.. That is just plain stupidity. Ruined the looks for anyone coming past the junction.. almost looks like the High Street in Ryde..
ALL part of the ploy Dave. Make a once lovely area an eyesore, or a flowing road into a bottle neck, as at Smallbrook lane, then leave it like it for a few years, then get more ‘on side’ when the area is ‘developed’ as people wrongly assume it can ‘only get better’
So true.
I remember reading a few years ago any ugly eyesore buildings would have to be
Looked after or they will be taken over.
Look at the ugly eyesore at Ryde St John’s Road, when anyone leaves the station
What a shocker.
THE COUNCIL TALK A LOAD OF —-
Get ready for another 475 homes being built. No matter what the Green Party and Ryde council object to it will come down to the decision of out beloved Isle of Council. We all know what they will vote for.
In my post just now it should read Isle of Wight Council – slight faux pas
The PINK.party might have something to say about it to
People before newts.
Newts before stagnant swamp life.
Don’t be harsh on yourself.
This has to be a joke , you can hold the Isle of Wight Green Party AGM in a phone box, A nothing party looking for the next band wagon to jump on,
So a lifestyle party not a political party decided to object? Makes me laugh how many people hate forward thinking ideas here on the island.. lol