In order for even more new homes to be built off Horsebridge Hill, a contribution of £48,158 would first need to be paid towards expanding primary care infrastructure, the NHS has said.
Writing to County Hall, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (ICB) said it would object to Captiva Homes’s latest plans for land at Acorn Farm if the funds were not secured.
The developer’s most recent Horsebridge Hill proposal includes a means of access, landscaping and ancillary infrastructure and continues a partnership with housing association the Sovereign Network Group.
It extends from the Phase 1 site currently under construction, according to E3S Consulting.
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s submission said the development directly affects the ability to provide required health services to residents of the estate and the community at large.
Without the £48,158 payment, there would be a ‘direct and adverse’ impact on the delivery of primary health care.
The ICB says the nearest GP surgeries to the proposed homes are Cowes Medical Centre and Newport Health Centre’s Carisbrooke and Dower House surgeries. These centres do not have the capacity to meet the increased demand arising from the development, its submission says…
“The only way to mitigate the impact is to increase the physical capacity of the existing surgeries. The ICB has carefully calculated the space needed to mitigate the impact, drawing upon the document ‘Health Contributions for GP Provision – Technical Note for Developers’.
Article continues below this advertisement “Without the contribution to increase the physical capacity, the proposed development will put too much strain on the said health infrastructure, putting people at risk.
“Waiting times would increase and access to adequate health service would decline, resulting in poorer health outcomes and prolonged health problems. Such an outcome is not sustainable as it will have a detrimental socio-economic impact.”
Captiva’s plans include 20 houses classed as market housing, 9 as social, affordable or intermediate rent and a further 3 designated as affordable home ownership, according to the developer’s application form.
Of the market housing, 9 are 2-bedroomed, another 9 have 3 bedrooms and 2 have 4 bedrooms or more. 5 of the social, affordable or intermediate rent homes are 2-bedroomed, 3 have 3 bedrooms and 1 is with 4 or more bedrooms. There is 1 affordable home ownership property with 2 bedrooms and another 2 are 3-bedroomed.
A draft Section 106 agreement published on the Isle of Wight Council’s planning portal includes schedules on affordable housing, habitats mitigation relating to the Solent Special Protection Areas and biodiversity offsetting.
Section 106 agreements are legal contracts between a developer and a local planning authority, entered to mitigate the effects of developments and make them acceptable in planning terms.
County Hall’s public consultation on application 25/01556/FUL concludes on 12tn December and a decision is due on 6th February.
It should be more. £48,000 is a drip in the ocean for the developer and not enough for the NHS to provide for the extra demands on services.
I’m sorry what’s 48 grand going to do?
About £1,500-00 per each property,so peanuts in the real world, it wouldn’t even cover the costs of a Nurse Practitioner at the health clinic, that’s if you could find the extra staff, chances of that are slim.
Buy 5 Costa’s and a donut
Pay a couple of NHS employees sick pay for the year.
Lol
Good luck with that and the present government, if you said it was layabouts etc you would get more joy.
That should have been thought about especially as the government are the one’s pushing for more and more dwellings.
Now, we have the NHS interfering in planning applications, what next, the police wanting their cut,the fire service, the lifeboat, the air ambulance who could all make a business case that extra houses means extra workload, and so it goes on, if this is allowed it will establish a bad precedent for all developments, in any event what will 48K get you , 15 hours a week from a GP , a decent nurse practioner if your lucky.
Yeah… 48 grand… That’ll do it…
In that case they should not have been built and every new home on the island ought to contribute. Doubtless the same story all over uk. Government promoting racism because it’s all caused by immigration. Tony Blair opened an unrestricted door.