More than 1,200 homes could be built on brownfield land on the Isle of Wight, according to the Isle of Wight Council’s 2022 Brownfield Land Register (BFLR).
The BFLR is something planning authorities must produce each year, containing the most up-to-date information about previously used sites it considers to be appropriate for residential development.
BFLRs were first produced in 2017 when 27 Island sites were listed. It has grown every year since and now 116 sites are on the 2022 version.
More than 64 hectares of brownfield land already has planning permission or is already being built on. This could amount to 1,229 homes across 47 sites on the list.
In the last year, 22 sites have been added, each with residential development potential, including the former driving test centre on Medina Avenue in Newport, the former Zanies nightclub in Sandown and land at the former Shoulder of Mutton pub site on Coppins Bridge.
No sites are taken away from the BFLR but instead given an end date, to signify they are no longer considered to be valid entries on the register. In the latest edition, there are 27 such sites with an end date.
One of those is the Ponda Rosa in Ashey, where officers said they have removed the site after refusing a planning application, noting it was not ‘achievable or deliverable’ as a residential development.
The Isle of Wight Council owns 15 of the valid sites with the potential to develop 116 properties.
Here are the sites still valid on the register, which has been deemed to have residential potential…
Brownfield sites on the 2022 register:
- 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d St James Street, Newport
- 113 High Street, Newport
- 117 Medina Avenue, Newport
- 13 Gills Cliff Road, Ventnor
- 14 Victoria Road, Sandown
- 23 Carter Street, Sandown
- 32a Union Street, Ryde
- 33 Carter Street, Sandown
- 33 Noke Common, Newport
- 37 Clatterford Road, Newport
- 57-59 High Street, Sandown
- 6 to 8 George Street, Ryde
- 7 School Green Road, Freshwater
- 91-93B High Street, Ryde
- Beachside Chalets, Cowes
- Belgrave Hotel, Sandown
- Bucklers View, Worsley Road, Gurnard
- Central, Victoria Street, Ventnor
- Cheeks Farm, Merstone Lane, Merstone
- Chester Lodge Hotel, Sandown
- Christian Respite Centre, Carter Street, Sandown
- Clark Masts Teksam Ltd, Binstead (added in 2022)
- Curraghmore, Shanklin
- Depot site at Lowtherville Road, Ventnor
- F H Winter And Sons, Havenstreet
- Fairview Residential Care Home
- Fallowfield Rest Home, Ryde
- Firbank, Shanklin (added in 2022)
- Fitness Factory, Newport (added in 2022)
- Folly Works, Whippingham (added in 2022)
- Former Bus Depot, Pier Street, Ventnor (added in 2022)
- Former Council Depot, Victoria Crescent, Ryde (added in 2022)
- Former Flamingo Park, Seaview
- Former Harcourt Sands Holiday Park, Puckpool
- Former Hosiden Besson, Binstead (added in 2022)
- Former Sandham Middle School Site, Sandown
- Former Sandown Snooker Club
- Former Sandown Town Hall
- Former Somerton Reservoir, Cowes
- Former Timber Works/ Sawmill, Building at Corner of Trafalgar Road and West Street, Newport (added in 2022)
- Former Ventnor Methodist Church, Ventnor
- Former Ventnor Youth Centre
- Former Weston Primary School Site, Totland
- Former Zanies Nightclub, Sandown (added in 2022)
- Former Pondwell Holiday Camp
- Highmead and The Laurels (formally Elmdon House), Shanklin (added in 2022)
- Idlecombe Farm House, Carisbrooke
- La Veness, Ventor
- Land adjacent to 77 Place Road, Cowes
- Land and Buildings at Lee Farm, Wellow
- Land at Fairlee Road, Hillside, Newport
- Land at Moreys Timber Yard, Trafalgar Road, Newport
- Land between Rink Road and Park Road (Opposite the IW bus Museum), Ryde (added in 2022)
- Leg of Mutton, Coppins Bridge (added in 2022)
- Marine Parade amusement arcade, Ventnor (added in 2022)
- Medina Food Services, 1 Little London, Newport
- Medina Yard, Cowes
- Mill Court, Furrlongs, Newport
- Mountfield Holiday Park, Norton Green, Freshwater
- Old Stag Inn, 2 Cowes Road, Newport
- Parklands Centre, Cowes
- Polars, Newport
- Queensmead, Shanklin (added in 2022)
- Raffles, Bembridge (added in 2022)
- Reynards Boarding Kennels, Wootton
- Savoy Court, Victoria Road and 1 and 3, Avenue Road, Sandown
- Shanklin Esplanade Car Park, Shanklin
- SPA Site, Shanklin Esplanade
- St Anthonys Convent, Shanklin
- St Marys Convent, Ryde
- St Rhadagunds, St Lawrence
- St Thomas’ Car Park, Ryde
- Steephill Residential Home, Ventnor
- Sunny Bay Apartments, Shanklin
- Test Centre, Medina Avenue, Newport (added in 2022)
- The Esplanade Hotel, Sandown (added in 2022)
- The West Bay Club, Yarmouth (added in 2022)
- The Worsley, Wroxall (added in 2022)
- Thompson House, Sandy Lane, Newport (added in 2022)
- Venture Quays, Barracks Building at the Esplanade and Albany Road, East Cowes
- Wight City Leisure Centre, Culver Parade, Sandown
- Winchester House, Shanklin
How damn stupid, keep building houses and the infrastructure will collapse, roads, hospital, policing. Idiocy at the council of the highest order. The site is the photo looked green, (Players Copse, Ryde) Houses are encroaching further along the beach line there and they are green sites, woodland, not brownfield. Corruption is rife still then.
I think you will find it is Harcourt Sands site at Puckpool, Ryde, in the photo
Yet not one site will be used as an extra hospital, or doctors or dentists.
Despite the NHS have several hospitals on the Island a few years ago, NOW we have so many more people here, as the UK does, can it just be ‘coincidence’ that all our Hospitals are full, as are our prisons?
I think not, yet still nothing is done to end mass arrivals coming into the UK which displace people who then end up moving here adding to our NHS burden.
End the source of the problem imo
If you visit St Mary’s you will see that the vast majority of foreigners are the staff and the vast majority of patients are white, British and elderly. Migrants will add more pressure when they get to their 70s, but now they are mostly young and healthy.
No point building hospitals, doctors or dentist surgeries unless there are nurses, doctors and dentists to work in them. St Mary’s, like most NHS hospitals, has about 1 in 10 posts unfilled and that is getting worse as more and more are leaving due to the atrocious working conditions. NHS dentistry relied, heavily, on Eastern European dentists, a large number of whom have gone home since Brexit.
The Tories are the real problem, not migrants. Stop believing their lies.
You have a point but the 7 million pound a day it cost just to house migrants would help a little i guess…know its a drop in the ocean but add in schools with translation and extras lets educate home grown not relie on migrants..torys may not be good but labour would ruin england.
Many migrants turn to crime, hence our prisons are filled with those not born here, or the offspring of recent immigrants, so they are not all working hard in the NHS.
Let’s stop pretending. For IF migrants were such a ‘boon’ to any country, then the lands which they pass through would be begging and paying them to ‘settle’ their.
Yet they are as desperate to move them on, as honest sensible people here wish to refuse entry to most.
No doubt one in a thousand are an asset but 500 will be earning so little that they will never pay in taxes the amount they drain from subsidised rent, NHS care, pension and child benefits. A few will earn their keep and pay more in than they take, and a huge amount will commit crimes
How do you know that the vast majority of people using St Mary’s are elderly, Smiffy? Have you the facts or is your assertion based on a visit? It is a logical assumption but not a fact. When I go there I see lots of young people, particularly young mums in outpatients. And to knee jerk that the Tories are responsible for every ill is too easy. I’m looking forward to when Labour sweeps to victory and things get inevitably and relentlessy worse. Who will you blame then?
Do we still have the Nightingale hospitals around,? you know the ones, the Government raved about them during the pandemic we had staff then, so why can”t we use them now?
cheaper to develop the greenfields you see so you can guess which option barrat and the likes are going to choose. Should be a ban on greenfield development until all these brownfield sites are utilised, simple.
Build new doctors and pay the NHS a real wadge so they don’t escape to the private sector and you may find many people would be happy for more uses on brown field sites.
Government are running the NHS into the ground so that the private companies can take over. The same happened in the US in the 50’s.
We have one choice to save the NHS. Revolt and hang the traitors.
Yup.
Today you call 999 and the fist thing you are asked is “Is the patient breathing?”.
If the Tories win the next election the first thing you will be asked is “how are you going to pay?”.
And Tory agents are out and about pushing lies about benefit scroungers, migrants and other bogeymen to scare the gullible into actually voting for this.
Don’t be fooled. If you let these people get another term in office the NHS is doomed.
Clueless person
The NHS has more managers than beds.
Site 117. High Street, Newport, opposite the police station.
Bit of a pointless list when a lot of these sites already have planning permission for houses, the Harcourt Sands site was going to be Huf Haus kit homes while the Folly works site was given permission years ago for houses and a hotel but like most nothing has happened apart from the banging of a few pegs into the ground so they could say works had begun. Even the new Newport football stadium which had a big announcement that work had started just resulted in a hedge being cut down and a whole load of cones being left abandoned beside the road.
The most frustrating thing is developers gain the planning permission making the site worth a lot more then everything going quiet while they try to sell the land at a big profit.
When will the council get it into its thick head that there is no more room for more people on the Isle of Wight?
Never. Too thick and total lack of any brain cells. Hopefully they will all go away for Christmas and forget to come back next year.
DON’T mistake our Council not doing the right thing for the council ‘being thick’.
They are not, as ‘they’ and their ilk live nowhere near the low life they squeeze into shoe box homes, nor do ‘they’ have to wait for medical care, or dentistry as all private health care, as is their children’s education.
So living in a leafy lane a beautiful detached home, paddock, hot tub, pool, new electric cars and on a massive salary which is certain as not a business so the money comes from us and will always be there for them.
So, whilst sly, cunning, devious, nasty, evil, crooked, uncaring, MAY perhaps be justified, ‘thick’ they are not.
They know what they are doing, and will have a wonderful life….will you?
Not with their wages, there’ll soon be back for more bonuses, pension’s and other freebies. Bet the council tax goes up 5% next year.
100% agree, BUT they are just following national guidelines by this Government, and all political parties have the same agenda.
Democracy is nothing but a myth…..end of imo.
Great ! That means none of the doctors surgeries will be able to cope, not only Cowes. Totally ridiculous