Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely has put in objections to a significant housing development in Ryde on land known as West Acre Park.
The application, submitted by Isle of Wight developer Captiva Homes, proposes the construction of the development of 475 homes.
Following meetings with over 200 residents to discuss the development, the MP has found significant local objection to the plans.
Mr Seely has said he is concerned about this development for a number of reasons not least – he says – because it goes against the Isle of Wight Council’s own planning guidelines.
Bob has said:
“I do not oppose these homes for opposition sake. We need to build homes for Islanders. However, we need planning which complements our environmental aims; contributes to a more sustainable economic model in which young people have better access to affordable homes; and enhances our style and local areas.”
On the basis of local suitability and sustainability, Seely says:
“I believe the Isle of Wight’s housing policy should oppose all greenfield development unless that development has strategic advantage for Islanders and is supported by the local population.
Article continues below this advertisement “It is clear that we need a better approach to land use on the Island. I am very much hoping that the Council will develop both a housing plan as well as an Island plan which has significantly less, or no, greenfield development.
“A greenfield extension to a strategic employer on the Isle of Wight is an exception; another housing development is not.”
Mr Seely has urged Islanders to look at the application and to make comment.
The residents suffer with greater pollution, more people, more rubbish, more traffic, more congestion, more pressure on roads, schools, nhs and other public services.
People suffer worse air quality because of more cars, more pollution, less trees and plant life to suck the co2 out of the atmosphere (which it is doing now, because no houses built on it).
Nature suffers, because birds, insects, creatures and plant life that call these fields home are killed and forced elsewhere without a say in things.
others suffer because natural drainage and water run off is compromised by miles of concrete and tarmac, that create a runway for water, rather than the ground soaking it up, as it does as a field.
the only winners are the council in more council tax money, plus cash for selling the rights and permissions, as well as the developers, who are nothing more than greedy, environment wrecking, selfish imbeciles, who prefer cash over the quality of the environment and have no interest in living in the mess they create.
Do you live in a tent and cycle everywhere?
rhonda – where are the hoardes of islanders who are homeless and have cash to buy a house? – No where, because there aren’t any – that means these houses are not aimed at islanders and will be advertised elsewhere with a view to importing more people to a small island at the expense of our environment.
The island is supposed to have biosphere status and isn’t there supposed to be a climate emergency on, that the council supported – that means no building on greenfields, to increase the ability of the environment to extract CO2 and reduce global warming.
The island cannot Cope with the population at the moment one hospital that has trouble coping plus schools and the road system on the island o don’t forget the traffic
You realise that the infrastructure doesn’t just absorb all those new people. Some of them are doctors and nurses and lorry drivers and cashiers. You don’t build an estate like that without building a couple of new schools as well. I mean, all the gripes people have are small minded. In the end the people that object tend to object to preserve something fictious whilst being generally unopposed by anyone thinking without predetermined ideas. Fact is, we need to expand and grow, not just as an island but as a community.
no mark …it is fools like you that are hell bent on concreting over the entire island in the name of growth …… growth of what ..it seems it is growth for growths sake and the pockets of vested interests.
There is no need to expand the number of houses on the island – perhaps a better strategy would be to prevent the unfettered influx of people moving to the island.
Shall we keep on building until we have houses hanging over the cliff edges, propped up with stilts because there is no space left.
Are you too inept to realise that more houses, means less greenery, which means nature has less ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and replace it with oxygen – you know, the stuff you need to breathe, to sustain your life.
Sadly this island and this planet are inhabited by people who are too stupid to realise that you need trees and plant life to generate oxygen and remove CO2 – then again, i am not surprised people dont get it, after all, look how many smoke tobacco
I totally agree with you
Can’t see any school or doctors surgery on the plan?
Buildings for money sake not for housing needs
How’s about building an NHS dental practice for once?
What a load of rubbish you talk!
I hate to say it but when is someone going to put their head above the parapet and say that the issue isn’t about the fact that we don’t have enough housing, its the fact that we have an ever growing population and a world that isn’t getting bigger. You can keep building and building but one day there is going to be a realisation that there needs to be a control of the population to control the growth.
You’re an idiot.
If you seriously believe that we are overpopulated then it is incumbent on you to remove yourself from the problem.
No one dare say that the real British had an average of 2.4 children, which was still increasing the population but at a just manageable rate.
Then greedy employers wanted ever cheaper labour, rather than to invest in machinery hi tech robots etc. so we imported cheap labour from overseas.
The wages dropped or stagnated, suiting the employers of such, but as many have huge families their earnings never were enough to fund them and their rent and council tax, so ‘we’ end up subsidising this ‘cheap labour’ by then having to have cut backs, and stealth taxes to keep the people most of us never wanted here in the first instance.
Whilst some do work hard, those on low hourly rates then have to claim large rent and council tax reductions and large sums of child and working tax credits, along with child allowance, making this ‘cheap labour’ ONLY cheap for the employer NOT for society.
Add the huge amount of green field space then needed to house all newcomers and one can see why many who ‘see’ this, object strongly, but the xeno or race card is swiftly pulled to ‘quell’ any truth being spoken, so it goes on unchecked, and that is why we ‘are, where we are’ and getting worse as time goes on.
Just sent my objections to IWCC Planning. (Was going to do so, with or without Seelys prompting).
At present I’m only the second person to comment.
Is this because the IWCC has made it so difficult to make online comments, or is it a case of “Whats the point”…….. Which as we all know is the point.
If we don’t make comment, does it not give the Council the excuse to say they had little response, so therefore passed the application? Yes I know, it’s a foregone conclusion. Approved!
Sadly it is, as the Pinks are very ‘close’ to the council.
Agree one has to try, but the entire Ryde council and many people objected to Penny feathers but the main council gave permission anyway.
Many of us know the way it ‘works’ as in our own life, we prefer to give work to ‘mates’ even more so should they be very grateful mates.
But it is the fact that they never listen or act on what the rest of the public wish even when backed by Parish or town councils. But when millions of pounds are involved and know councillors who are dishonest in their business life are making decisions faith in local planning and politics is a low as in main politics now.
The island needs development. It has for a long time. 450 houses isn’t actually that many, 450 households is no more than 2,500 new people. That said the islands infrastructure needs more bodies in the off season. There’s not really an issue to be raised here. It seems to me that the wrong people are making the decisions. It isnt the councils job to deny progress, it’s their job to ensure its healthy progress. That said, I think it’s about time we had a non-conservative mp.
Once again Councillor Dave “Pugwash” Stewart gets his way, rubbing his hands when he dreams of all that council tax coming in. There never seems to be objections from other councillors, I wonder why, maybe it’s the “don’t mess with me” attitude. Isle of Concrete.
Well Bob, you say you are opposed to this development, if you feel so strongly about it, then get onto your party to call this development in before the council pass it.
Don’t just say things, act.