St George’s Way
Plans for nearly 150 houses on the edge of Gunville look set to finally go before planners.
2 applications, full plans for 36 houses and outline for 113, were submitted in November 2019 but now revised plans are back before the Isle of Wight Council.
Ecological and archaeological information has been updated for both sets of plans, which have been proposed by DN Associates. No changes have been made to the number of houses proposed.
The first phase of works could see the 36 houses built, if approved, as a mixture of 2 and 3-bed houses.
The development would add 2 roads and extend cul-de-sacs on Arthur Moody Drive and Forest Hills. The applications also propose upgrading the N151 footpath.
The second phase of a further 113 houses will wrap around the previous ones.
Other developments in Gunville have been given approval on either side of this scheme — a 22-house dwelling from Alvington Manor View and 50 plots off of Ash Lane. If the 149 houses get approved, the Gunville area could expand by 221 houses.
The original design and access statement for the development proposes 35% of the homes will be affordable — roughly 52 of the 149.
To view or comment on the proposals, you can visit the council’s planning portal and search 19/01415/OUT (for the 113 dwellings) or 19/01426/FUL (for the 36 houses).
Even MORE cou ncil tax into cou ncil coffers, yet they will still put up the c.tax for all, YET are cutting back on services. Selling schools, saving a fortune.
Getting Gov grants, so ‘where’ is all this extra, and saved and grant money going too?
so how many of three’s new houses will be for local people ? And more farmland lost for good
A token gesture few locals will be likely housed, whilst it is more profitable for our uncaring council to take in main-land excess tenants as they are paid ‘to’ take such from their local authorities.
Ask you council if in doubt that this happens, as it does.
Problem then is, it adds to the Island population making finding work and future homes that much harder as these extra housed have children who will need a home eventually.
The council care little as they have a job, have private education and health, so, WHY would they?
Difficult to square this with IWC’s Strategic Plan which seeks to avoid building on greenfield sites.
And where are the extra medical facilities, bus routes …?
Anyone with any money and sense would buy a plot of what is now close discribed as farm land then in 10 years sell it to the council make a profit
Mojo, not quite that easy. For you have to know who, and where to send the thank you cards to those people for turning that plot from cheap land into expensive building land.
Then, suddenly environmental issues, farmland, and other ‘issues’ they ‘find’ for those small, turned down building issues won’t matter, and can be ‘gotten over’ IF the thank you card is a nice padded one.
Need to be in the right click and you will do very very well and several developers are, some are tickled PINK over it all. A clue there.
Is this a joke?
Another green field concreted over by this council for the great unwashed!
Wouldn’t want to house island families would we, rather they pay extortionate private rent
The Isle of Wight has GOT to STOP building more houses. We simply do not have the resources to support any more housing. Our roads, apart from being a mess still, are chocker block. Our hospital, dental and GP’s are overwhelmed. All the space over our empty and neglected shops should be turned into flats and all the empty and neglected houses should be compulsorily purchased. Stop building on greenfield sites.
Yet another SICK VILE DISGUSTING kick in the face. NO MORE HOUSING ESTATES IWC you MORONS
Please please send your objections to the council. The more people who stand up to this, the more people the council has to answer to. They may well be ‘corrupt’ but they are certainly self-serving and won’t commit political suicide.
Yet another development nowhere near where the so called bigwigs live, i wonder why?
……………. and employment will be provided at ……………….
Oh silly me. What a stupid thing to think about.
Will the message ever sink in. No, No, No.
We have to build houses so the illegal immigrants have somewhere to live.now stop moaning.
what the hell is wrong with these f%%kwits. No more effing houses – how many more times must we say no, before someone has to be spoken with more closely.
more brown envolopes flying about
To put your turkey drumstick in.
Nice grren space Bob seely
Come on do what you say and stop this
Its not needed
BUILD FOR NEED NOT FOR GREED
W have got to get rid of this disgusting council who have only one policy build on fields
for people from the mainland to move into.
Ding dong (an apt name, apparently) do you not think it might be better for you and all of us to improve our own environment rather than simply muscling in on someone else’s?
Why should our elected reps and their (our) servants be allowed to wreck everything for no benefit except to capitalist developers and possibly their own pockets?
Hopefully they will be priced to keep islanders out, last thing us DFLs want is them moaning about how hard done by they are..
150 Homes = At least 150 more cars on our unkept roads.. Your car has to be roadworthy..But the roads don’t have to be Carworthy.
I wonder, have companies done a feasibility test ( or whatever it is called) to find out how many people this Island can sustain and still be a beautiful place for tourists.. just seems to me that if all these new homes are built, and in years and years they will be finally bought and filled, but what will the population of this beautiful Island be then? Or will it turn into a Suburb of Southampton and Portsmouth ? So sad to ruin a rural Island.. turning it into a housing estate..
Dave, these greedy, self serving, individuals don’t care.
We all need to vote at local elections next time, for otherwise nothing will change here Dave.
I suppose soon they will be building all along Tennyson Downs… why not, they are ruining everywhere else… Noticed they stopped the building proposal at Seaclose Park Newport, because they did not want to lose all the money they get from the Isle of Wight Festival… obviously..
Imagine houses all along Military Road both sides… bye bye lovely Island…