An application has been submitted to Isle of Wight Council seeking permission for 38 houses, including a mix of market and affordable housing in Rookley.
Mr and Mrs Isaacson have submitted an outline application for the new homes, 35% of which would be ‘affordable’, on agricultural land at The Lodge off Rookley’s Main Road.
Their proposal also includes access roads and parking, landscaping, biodiversity enhancements and a Sustainable Drainage Systems pond.
The development would comprise 25 units classed as market housing, 9 as social, affordable or intermediate rent and 2 as ‘affordable home ownership’, according to a submitted application form.
With an ‘undeniable need’ for both market and affordable housing, the plans would make a ‘significant contribution’ to addressing the housing supply shortage, the Andrew White Planning Consultancy said.
“The new homes will be designed to a high quality and there will be a range of unit types and sizes.
“Significantly, 35% of the new homes will be affordable homes, all designed to be tenure blind and indistinguishable from private market housing. This will assist in creating a mixed and balanced community.
Article continues below this advertisement “Providing housing and associated infrastructure on this greenfield site would sit well with the general shape of the Rookley settlement and would not jut awkwardly into the countryside.”
The Isle of Wight Council’s public consultation on application 25/01332/OUT finishes on 24th October and a decision is due on 19th December.
High quality.dont make me laugh,bodge built shoeboxes more like,and what figure is affordable?
i bet its more than 130,000,anything higher is £800-£1000 a month mortgage which young people cannot afford,second homes again then,and on agricultural land,so,selling off their farm bit by bit,the field above it will be next.
Just like all the new homes built in Bembridge that
are unsold, not affordable for Islanders.
I hope that the affordable properties will have safeguards built in to their sale or tenancy which preventsthem being bought at discount prices only to be sold on at a huge profit to the buyer in a few years and thereby making no long term contribution to the stock of affordable property for the next generation of young people.