The Isle of Wight Council is looking to force housing developers to contribute to local health facilities – and is wanting your views on the proposals. The draft Health Contributions Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) has been prepared in partnership with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (ICB). It means financial contributions towards new health facilities – but not dentistry – could be collected from new development. This draft document outlines how the ICB decide what improvements to health infrastructure may be needed in particular areas of the Island. These improvements would be for infrastructure only, such as new or extended health premises, and not health services, for example, recruiting more GPs. Under the draft SPD, the ICB will use evidence relating to the following issues to help calculate whether contributions are required:
- The capacity of existing health facilities in an area
- Current patient list sizes
- Size and space standards for new health facilities
- The cost of building new health facilities
The draft SPD then identifies how the amount of money a developer may have to pay towards these improvements is worked out and also what size of new development may have to pay. Councillor Paul Fuller, Cabinet member for planning, waste and flooding, has said:
“One of the main comments we hear from a lot of people is that we don’t have adequate medical facilities such as GP surgeries to support new development. “This draft document, prepared in partnership with colleagues at the NHS, sets out how and when new development will be expected to pay towards new health facilities. “I look forward to people sharing their thoughts so we can bring a final SPD back to Cabinet in May, where we can start using the document when making planning decisions.”
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The consultation will run until Tuesday 2nd April 2024 and more information can be found at https://www.iow.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/planning/local-plan/supplementary-planning-document-consultations/. Comments can be submitted by email to [email protected] or by post to Planning Services, Seaclose Office, Fairlee Road, Newport, PO30 2QS. Copies of the draft SPD are available to view at reception at both Seaclose offices and County Hall.
We going to need a bigger hospital with lots more parking soon with all these houses going up aswell as local doctors
Wow,,,,,,, build more facilities !!!!!
But you need staff ????
Dr’s nurses etc …..
Is this a loophole to say look we are making the developers pay towards health care facilities ??????
So as to allow more houses to be built ??????
Seems like the old saying all the gear and no idea !!!!
But hey this is the iow council…….
It’s not only GP’s surgeries that are needed, also on a side note, the hospital itself is a mass of failing managers, bullying culture is embedded within the entire place. So if there is more money given to “healthcare” it will just go to more and more bloody managers and no real extra care at all, independent audit and overhaul is required, almost as corrupt as the council itself. I like the emphasis on NOT DENTISTRY what a joke, but not funny at all.
No. It’s the Governments job to fund NHS health facilities. And it’s not buildings we need, it’s opportunities for people to want to train to become health staff in the first place.
Absolutely not needed at all we need density not more doctor’s surgery’s they have enough everyone can be seen and they just need to sort out the dentist problem for CHILDREN for sure so many little ones having their teeth pulled out because they can not be seen by a nHS dentist as they do nothing not even if you pay to go private iv never known of any children getting teeth pulled out until covid hit and then the problem just gets worse and they anit doing nothing about it SAVE our children’s health
As the article makes clear, the idea is to generate capital not revenue, so it’s not going to provide any more staff – and anyway, that’s what government is supposed to be doing.
As for dentistry for children, agreed we are in a bad state, but the long-term remedy is decent diet provided by parents who can cook fresh food, not a constant stream of convenience crap.
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Does that include Captiva Homes, or do they get mates rates!!
Entirely agree with the council. They should also contribute to other services such as sewerage, water and roads.
Hang on let’s think about this, they need to build houses because of increasing population. Therefore for every new house you will create a new household. If we assume the new householders are a working couple, that will generate ADDITIONAL council tax, road tax, VAT, national insurance, PAYE tax, TV licencing, utility standing charges, etc. Now that is new income that should be paying for all the new facilities required to sustain new developments.
Using developers as cash cows will push up the prices of new builds locking even more people out of the housing market.
The island’s population is decreasing, which is why there should be no new developments,
With a flotilla arriving daily do YOU truly think they will ALWAYS be living in hotels and ship hulks?
Whilst the next wave after wave forever onwards will be, the others will be given an amnesty under Labour Gov, to stay and they will ‘use’ the latest retirement age level of being 71 years old to reduce the public ‘outcry’ by saying that ” IF we allow all to stay, we can then keep the retirement age as previously planned”
Hence that is why it has been made news, so the public will then moan but say “At least we don’t have to work until we drop now”
But imms too age, then what?
Interesting new name. Must have taken you a while to come up with it.
Just another tax really, that will also push up prices.
I expect they’ll be an exemption package available for Alpaca farmers wanting to build housing estates within Llama spitting distances for ‘make great benefit of glorious creation of faux rural tourism’.
These issues are already dealt with for a great deal of developments in the form of a S.106.
Basically “S106 agreements are attached to the land, binding it and whoever owns it. Also referred to as planning obligations, S106 agreements may provide for financial contributions to be made by the developer to compensate for any loss or damage caused by the development, or to mitigate a development’s wider impact”.
The problem is that councils do not manage or enforce them quick enough, if at all, before they expire, the only change needed is not to take more money and push up the cost of houses, but to legally force the S106 work is carried out first before the properties. Makes you wonder what the IWC does with all it’s S106 money!
They can promise fantastic new surgeries but how will they man them as the island hospital is little more than a first aid station with most serious cases going to the mainland and the island is a career dead end as far as qualified staff are concerned.
WAaaait a minute….the current PFI contract is responsible for the buildings and infrastructure so in theory any funds coming from developers will ultimately go straight into the pockets of the PFI investors and we will end up paying for it again for the next 25 years, no? Don’t think for a second health provision will be any better without doctors, drugs etc. For that you need a government with the will to say goodbye, PFI, your defunding of the NHS budget stops here.