Yet more houses could be added to a major East Cowes development on a greenfield site.
Plans for the properties at the bottom of the Hawthorn Meadows estate were 1st submitted in March 2018, with the principle of development and access only approved in July 2020.
The 2020 plan was for up to 30 houses but plans have now been reduced to 17 — 6 affordable 2 and 3-bed houses and 11 3 and 4-bed market homes.
The finer details for the scheme on land off of St Wilfred’s Drive have been lodged with the Isle of Wight Council by Gallantgreen, confirming the scale, appearance, layout and landscaping of the development. You can view the plans, 22/01749/ARM, on the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 11th November.
Access to the proposed properties could be from St Wilfred’s Drive, as opposed to Saunders Way. A total of 96 letters of objection were received to the first application by the council including complaints the development would add to an already cramped estate, the local infrastructure was insufficient and inadequate parking would result in the roads becoming dangerous.
East Cowes Town Council said the land was one of the few remaining green spaces in the town and had been used for recreation and leisure purposes by residents.
Historically, the land had also been given the approval to be used as part of a 9.9-hectare employment development
STOP BUILDING ON GREENLAND
There are enough homes in this area already so why build more and block the great view there. Bloody pathetic greed as per usual. 🙁
Our new ‘locals’ have to live somewhere..welcome to not for islanders avenue…this council is so progressively amazing, like just brilliant ok, I’d happily sleep on a pile of rubbish so all the worlds problems can have a better life..Go Ukraine WoooHooo..
Except “our new locals” are mostly white British retirees.
Not in Ryde…
Bring it on, hospital full no dentists or doctors, more houses, more people and on it goes.
WE DO NOT, REPEAT NOT, NEED MORE HOUSES ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT. WHAT WE DO NEED IS USEFUL EMPLOYMENT FOR THOSE ALREADY LIVING HERE. MORE HOUSES SIMPLY MEANS MORE PEOPLE WITH EVEN LESS PURPOSE OF LIFE.
STOP Building.
There are many empty homes and derelict Hotels that are sitting empty on the
Island.
Convert these into living accommodation.
STOP ruining the Island.
Make use of what the Island has already.
When will the ‘authorities’ wake up. The Island is FULL. Not enough Doctors, Dentists, etc. for the present population, never mind more. Overcrowded roads, sewage systems bursting to the extent that we have to go back to pumping it out to sea and now they are allowing green fields to be developed.
For goodness sake, are there no councillors with B- – – s…..????????
Get this stopped, once Greenfield is built on we have lost it forever,
You want to waste our money on carbon neutral heating and led ruddy lights, fat lot of good with all the traffic these new builds will create !!!!!!!!
Plus more people will be using open fires wood burners, and don’t forget BBQ s in the postage stamp Gardens, for the rabbit hutches !!!!!!!
Welcome to the concrete jungle jigsaw !!!!!
Nope, have not got any between them!
Or the will to represent the views of the people who elected them either by the looks of it!
East Cowes meets Island Harbour, meets Newport, the gaps are getting smaller, and when the festival fizzles out, that land will be built on.
A million new visas dished out each year says they will get to build wherever they like when they like – you cannot import 7 times the population of the Isle of Wight into Britain annually and not expect to concrete over large swathes of the countryside to accommodate them – also remember that a lot of local political campaigners against these developments belong to parties whose policy in Westminster is to open the borders and bring in even more people – disingenuous hypocrisy at its worst
Learn what a visa is before making such idiotic comments.
A visa a a permission to be in a country for a certain length of time. It does not confer permanent residency and are mostly for work contracts and tourism.
And a good number of visas are for healthcare workers.
Development on greenfields should be banned.
Council allows such shits and then everyone wonders why we have drought, pollution and car accidents.
When will the Council listen to the people they’re supposed to represent?
If we had a local referendum on whether we want or need these new housing estates being built, what would the result be? A resounding ‘No’ I would think.
Is there ANYONE in favour of more housing estates being built on the Island?
This council is ******* useless.
I don’t see what everyone is whining about. We need more homes. Think about all the refugees, they all need a home and what better place for them to live and relax after the awful things they have all gone through. I think anyone with a spare bedroom should offer it to a refugee free of charge, feed them and cloth them. This should be law