Plans for houses near an East Cowes primary school are back again despite being rejected nearly 3 years ago.
The Sisters of Christ have once again put forward outline plans for 25 houses on Millfield Avenue, in a field next to Holy Cross Primary School, and part of its car park.
The Isle of Wight Council rejected the previous application was rejected for eight reasons, including the removal of existing car parking provisions for the school, potential harm to a locally listed heritage asset and a significant increase in traffic on the junction of Old Road and Millfield Avenue.
Planning agents, Vail Williams, said the reasons for refusal have been addressed and the scheme now has an improved layout, scale and form of development, whilst current car parking facilities would be relocated.
A new green space has also been proposed running through the centre of the site, to minimise the view of the development when looking from the nearby listed Millfield House.
The Sisters used to live in the former Springhill Convent but sold most of its land and buildings in 2016. The housing application is proposed on the last parcel of land the Sisters own and could contain 16 market and 9 affordable houses and bungalows.
In planning documents, Vail Williams says it will be a characterful development which extended the existing settlement footprint and positively integrates new buildings and landscapes.
The application is only seeking permission for the access, layout and scale of the development, the appearance and landscaping will be determined at a later stage.
You can view the plans, 22/01051/OUT, on the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 17th March.
The Sisters of Christ have once again put forward outline plans for 25 houses on Millfield Avenue
more like they will be raising hell for the environment, the islands roads, hospitals and infrastructure, by turning a peaceful, serene and heavenly environment for birds, insects, creatures and plant life into an unholy concrete hole, with exhaust fumes spiralling into the air, nature destroyed and pollution everywhere and for what – to line their own pockets.
who would have thought that the supposed church, an apparent bastion of morality, has sunk to the depths of selling itself for money at the expense of everyone else, including the environment.
this needs to be turned down again, to save these sisters from theirselves.
Old Rd there has no pavement. It’s already scary to go to a shop. How is that going to be addressed? I’m all for making it 1-way and adding a mixed-use pavement.
I’m sorry to whoever gave me thumbs down that I want to feel safe as a pedestrian in my own town when going to buy a loaf of bread.
I bow to the car gods.
But that’s not a brownfield, is it? I think it even has a dark sky status? What happened to building only on brownfields?
Millfield Av already has too much car traffic. You can’t go safely for a walk and enjoy fresh air. You must constantly be alert and feel like an intruder on a highway, and this increases car traffic because other parents start to feel like walking there is dangerous and opt for a car and vicious cycle continues.
There should be minimum double-yellow on the whole length as it’s narrow and offers no sidewalk! And it’s even a path to school for children! I don’t know how many more reasons you may need to make it safe and REDUCE traffic, not increase it with more developments, God.
I think you’re confused, these will all have 2 parking spaces. There can’t be double yellows because we’ll have to put the third car on the road.
We need more car storage not less!
Milfield Avenue is an unadopted (private) road taken over by parents rushing to and from school
Do these building companies have shares with the Ferry companies.. / because the more homes they build, the more money goes into the Ferries… Dear Council, if you mean to allow the building of over 2,ooo new homes on this Island, can we please have a tunnel, to get to and from the mainland ?
a simple question, all these new homes proposing to be built… are any of the supermarkets making bigger parking areas, are the towns car parks going to be made bigger ? Because I would like know where another 2,000 plus cars are going to park?? Just imagine the queues…..
New homes cause problems with lack of parking only if there’s dependency on cars.
What we need – and our obesity contest winning British bellies too! – is more induced demand for walking and cycling, not induced demand for cars. And public transport for longer routes.
Greenfield. Too many people already. Ratio of GP’s against population nowhere near government requirement, inadequate health care, sewage system overwhelmed already. t won’t go on, I know it gets boring but we must stop increasing the population of the Island it’s full up. Unless of course the authorities wake up and improve the whole infrastructure.
It only increases by about 200 per year. Not much really is it.
I don’t buy into this idea that there’s thousands of Islanders sitting there waiting for homes to be built so they can buy them. If we’ve got such a long waiting list of local people queuing up to buy new homes, why are the Council importing people from the mainland? And these new people get homes straight away, no waiting, no queue. Surely they wouldn’t be bringing more people here if there’s already a housing crisis?
I don’t doubt there are people who would buy ‘affordable homes’ if they were built, although just a quick look on Rightmove shows there’s quite a number of reasonably priced houses for sale already, but is it really the thousands the Council would have us believe?
I guess I just don’t trust the Council these days.
When, how, and why, do the Council import people from the mainland, and for what purpose?