An opportunity to have your say on the way £20million should be invested in Ryde has arrived! Community Engagement is right at the heart of the current Levelling Up funding for Ryde and the Town Board wants to hear your views. The Town Board are carrying out a comprehensive schedule of engagement over the next few weeks and want to hear the views of as many stakeholders in Ryde as possible. Residents from across the community, as well as visitors and businesses are being asked to complete a questionnaire to help shape and prioritise projects to improve the town. Steven Holbrook, Town Board Chair, says:
“We know how often everyone gets asked for their opinions and we know how easy it is to become ‘engagement-fatigued’, especially if there is no tangible evidence that those opinions have been listened to or put into action. However with £20 million to be spent over the next 10 years this is your chance to have your say in shaping the future of your town on a scale we’ve never seen before.”
In order to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to be heard the Town Board have partnered with a number of key organisations who work within Ryde. Aspire, New Carnival Company, John’s Club and Network Ryde are helping to get the message as far and wide as possible within the communities they serve and we will be at a number of events in Ryde over the next few weeks. Come and see the Town Board at the old Natwest building which has been rented for the duration of the engagement period where they will answer as many questions as possible. Or you could drop into Aspire, Ryde Library, Ryde Marina or Ryde Town Council Offices to complete a questionnaire. You also have the option of visiting www.rydetownboard.org.uk. The community engagement is due to finish on Sunday 7th July and the results will form a key element of the 3-year and 10-year plans which have to be submitted to the Government by 1st August.
More police, more traffic wardens, a drug squad and appropriate effective detergentes, then you can build a better Ryde
Would be nice, but Tories will cut the same amount we spend from the budget. It’s the game they play, fake tax cuts and fake ‘investments into local communities’. Just to buy votes.
This funding is not for these purposes. Policing is under the control of the PCC.
Peter the perv knows it all as usual.
Way to go Mr pervert, tell it as it is .
This money is a grant from the Governments Levelling Up Fund, applied for by Ryde Town Council and it is designed for infrastructure projects. Sorry, dems da rules. Cant spend it on police, or any of the other “interesting” ideas others have put forward.
We would look like a town occupied by the military!
£20 Million for Ryde?? That’s a bloody insult after the money that has been wasted on the interchange , there are far more worthwhile places on the island that deserve the money!
Then George, perhaps they should have applied for it!
So why didn’t those other places on the island apply to the government for grant funding ?
CBA ?
A damned good paint restoration to those streets leading from the esplanade.Hideous blight to the eye.
employ 40 people on £20ph x 40 hours a week – cost of £1,664,000 in wages a year and then add on some for the employer NI and pension contributions. That will eat up the entire £2 million a year
tell all 40 people, their jobs are to seek out all illegal immigrants, anti socials, junkies, alcoholics, drug dealers and perverts. Every time they locate one of these scumbags, they must find out if they were born on the isle of wight – if not, they are to be physically escorted to pompey and left on the seafront. Those that were born on the island, must be recorded and then advised that they will be harassed, pestered and annoyed as often as possible until they change their ways, die in the case of perverts or leave if illegally here
Agree except illegal imagrants are not scumbags , they are desperate people looking for a safe life away from exploitation and violence.Funny how Reform’s so called stats were shot down by BBC this morning . Druggies and lazy individuals causing antisocial behaviour and teenagers starting fires in hotels are the scumbags.
So the illegals are ‘just’ desperate people? I disagree unless you mean desperate to claim our social security, burden our NHS , drain wealth from our education system and know they will end up in a rent paid decent home ALL funded by us. IF they were desperate they would stay in mainland Europe NOT risk their children’s lives crossing the English Channel. FACT. So vote REFORM
Freddie, one doesn’t need any stats to understand that any country cannot take forever, the NEVER ENDING amount of people from another country without it seriously impacting on the people, both indigenous, and your ‘beloved’ immigrants already settled here.
I guess you have a buggy full in the family, which was fashionable to have back in the 90’s, but now, due to the serious amount here, most people, albeit several decades too late, can see what a mistake it was to end work visas, and give these people the exact same rights and asylum which is openly abused.
It will be working people NOT the elite who pay the price, not just in money for this huge mistake. VOTE REFORM
Hear hear about desperate people trying to make a life for themselves and their loved ones. They’re not trying to get here under dangerous and frightening circumstances because its easy.
Looks like you’re off to Pompey then islander
You really are totally deranged.
You been on Big Reg Dennis’s weed again, or just got one cell the size of a pea ?.
one cell the size of a pea!
You really need to stay in school, Kev
Get your parents to help with the homework
It wont bloody matter about the publics opinion they’ll (council) just waste the money as them lot like to just like how they did with the bus station when everyone voted a majority no/against it. The public was clear on not to waste money on the bus station and you still wasted money anyways
Create a crack head rounding up squad, stick em on a plane to Rwanda and your instantly sort ryde out.
Noon you fist on the list then bye bye , have a nice flight and don’t come back.
Some more bins would be nice. And not just along the sea front. Fix the sink hole that has been forming at the top of St Johns road just after the traffic lights. Right in the centre line, perfect for causing motorcycles to crash. It’s now started to dip on the other side of the road too. I guess wait till someone dies before we fix it eh?
All the responsibility of the money pit called Island Roads.
Get rid of the hills, make Ryde flatter so people can walk around it easier. I avoid going to the shops there because of the steep hill.
Your loss is Ryde’s gain.
Reduce our Council Tax would be a great idea.
Look at the money Jordan wasted on the Interchange
it now looks worse than before.
NO one uses the cycle lanes and vehicles are forever turning
right into George Street even though there are signs that clearly state
“NO” Right turn!
“THIS IS VERY DANGEROUS FOR PEDESTRIANS”
IW Council should erect bollards or a fence to STOP this happening
How long before someone gets run over??
The Council are clueless when it comes to Road safety.
Jordan didn’t waste the money as The Ryde Interchange Project was primarily funded by government grant from the Transforming Cities Fund. It was signed off by them.
Cllr Jordan could have refused the money and left the Esplanade as it was as the Council didn’t have any money to improve the area. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I welcome the improvements.
Why don’t no one Police the “NO” Right turn offenders.
Also fine the selfish cyclists who don’t use the cycle lanes.
The Island is such a Lawless place
Try writing to Phil Jordan about it. If you’re polite I daresay he’ll send you an answer. That’s what I’ve found
Stop B’stards parking on Double Yellow Lines along
Monkton Street and Park Road.
Bet the Councils G’estapo Enforcement Officers to walk the
Roads and Streets
Invest in Tow trucks, have these vehicles crushed immediately
I have seen scaffolding trucks in Shanklin causing nothing but mayhem
for pedestrians and motorists, they are blocking visability for persons
They should have person on STOP AND GO
Chewing on that crack now I think, weed didn’t hit the spot…
mummy need to book in some rehab marky
The inclusion of New Carnival Company gives a clue that some of the money will be spent on arty, frothy, cornflake-boxy, paper butterfly wing stuff. I hope our rough sleepers and people desperate for shelter from abusive relationships or recovering from addiction appreciate the carnival parades going by.
Two more representatives of arts organisations on the Town Board. I fear you are right.
We are told the Town Board will be carrying out a comprehensive schedule of engagement. Are we allowed to know when and where the “schedule of engagement” will take place ?
Get rid of the Ryde tax precept for everyone, simple as that
Don’t be swayed by trendy things invest wisely for the future
It will take £20 million to fix all the potholes.
Some seriously unpleasant people commenting on here – and what a surprise they’re all voting reform.
The 20 million quid will be swallowed up by focus groups deciding how we’re going to spend 20 million quid
The council should spend the 2 million on a few bulldozers and flatten the place. It would make the place look a million times better.
Wont bloody matter about the publics opinion you’ll just waste the money as you lot like to like you did with the bus station when everyone voted a majority no/against it. The public was clear on not to waste money on the bus station and you still wasted money anyways