Another major housing development could be approved in Gunville as it comes before planners for a 2nd time.
The outline application for more than 100 houses — although no specific number has been set yet — was first discussed by the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee last year.
Concerns over pedestrian safety and highway improvements at the site on Gunville Road, next to the former Friends of the Animals Charity Shop, put forward by Gallantgreen, saw the scheme sent away with requests for further information.
The planning committee asked about opening Taylor Road, which would connect Gunville to Carisbrooke and Newport, via Wellington Road, cutting out the Waverley roundabout. They also suggested removing the traffic pinch point and replacing it with a zebra crossing, although it was suggested a raised bump and controlled pedestrian crossing could be used.
Now, in a report to the committee, the issues have tried to be addressed.
A highway consultant, on behalf of Gallantgreen, said no other alternative crossing arrangement, other than the original zebra crossing, would be feasible or desirable. The option of a raised bump has been ruled out, as Island Roads said it was considered to be an unnecessary hazard to buses, emergency service vehicles and cyclists.
It was considered ‘unreasonable’ by officers to require Taylor Road to be opened as it currently provides a safe route to school and would compromise pedestrian safety.
The best option to improve safety, officers suggest, would be a separate pedestrian and cycling link from the east of the site (towards Carisbrooke College) through to Taylor Road. They say it would represent a significant planning gain, improving pedestrian and cycle connectivity as well as providing links to the proposed West Wight cycle track.
Overall, the report says, Island Roads and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary consider the zebra crossing, together with the pedestrian and cycle link, would be the most appropriate option.
Officers continue to recommend the site for approval but the final decision will be made by the planning committee today (Tuesday).
As it is an outline application, only the access could be approved at this stage with a further application necessary to determine the layout, scale and appearance.
Recently, on the other side of Gunville Road, another infill development of 149 houses has been approved by the council.
more greenland going to waste….
As no imm has yet arrived in the UK with any land or many with any money to purchase a home, but ALL will eventually end up in one, then the displaced indigenous people move to low immigration areas such as here , adding to the once beautiful countryside destruction, not for ‘a while’ but FOREVER
Remember that. Bad enough our own needs without the worlds burdens
I do hope so, bring them all over and out breed the likes of you.
Camp hill prison will be an immigration
centre next .. they’ll be wandering about all over the place that’s something to be concerned about – they will all require the NHS too ….
only 100 should be 1000
Put the infrastructure in place FIRST , everywhere is at breaking point let alone permitting more and more housing which means more and more stress upon the services. Stop kicking the can down the road
when will these clowns learn – people are waiting months and years for surgeries in the hospitals, yet these idiots want to add to it by building more homes, instead of implementing population reduction measures
Perhaps we the voters should insist all housing be for nurses, junior doctors, and other health care professionals we need here as well as local families. If they are for more mainland overspill then no housing can be built. About time Brodie and the rest of planning clowns started listening.
And a new hospital? Some hospital workers? And some doctors?
And some NHS Dentists!!
Get use to it, they will not refuse it as it will be granted on appeal under sustainable development a price we are all paying for because certain councillors keep sending the Island plan back to the drawing board. They do not seem to understand that whilst they are bickering over the number of house building on the Island the developers are applying and being granted large numbers of houses to be built on greenfield sites which most probable would not have been granted if we had a working plan for the Island. That is our biggest problem at the moment NO ISLAND PLAN !!!!!!!!!!
I hear what you are saying Ditzy, but can’t agree entirely.
I think even with an Island plan the amount of building will be the same or worse, not less.
It is a cunning plan, as they send out questionaires to the public to ask what they ‘expect’ they will need in the coming years etc. So if you have a couple of children you might tick ! bed flats etc etc.
Then like all public surveys, WHEN they build what they want, they will say that 80% of the public ‘voted’ to have X amount of one bed flats, X amount of two bed homes etc etc.
So it looks like they care and listen but they can use the date to THEN blame the public for any and every housing development, but still do what they wish or is most lucrative anyway.
Watch and see
No point in telling this lot about infrastructure hospital Dr’s Dentists etc …..
They only hear ker ching ….more brown envelopes…..Back door / pocket money !!!!!!!
Money money money , …..
I bet They already have private health care , and Dentists …
So they don’t care ….
The concrete jungle jigsaw is getting closer…..
Flooding sewage discharge on it’s way …
No Greenfield no tree’s ..
Carbon footprint ???????
This housing will be free homes for more low life to be shipped here just like all the rest have been. They are not for us, we already have homes & if we didn’t we would not be able to afford one of them anyway. If they must build free home, build them for nurses & doctors or working families who can’t afford to buy. Why should a load of junkies & drunks be given one for free, claim more in benefits & PIP & child allowance & free handouts than working people are earning.I am sick of hearing them bragging about how much they are claiming & taking the p*ss out of the system when working people are struggling to eat or heat their homes.The DWP need to start asking questions about these poncers & scroungers.
Absolutely agree with you, there is a labour shortage in this country so why are we paying people to sit on their fat lazy backsides while decent people are working and struggling to pay their way in life. The working public are paying for these waste of spacers through our ever increasing taxes
Your alright ‘ arent you !! Think about the less well off
I’m not talking about the less well off, i’m talking about the ones claiming anything up to £85.000 a year on benefits taking the piss out of the system that are not being investigated as to why they are being allowed to
What a bloody joke more houses at the top of Broadwood lane now accross the road they want more
we have no dentist no doctors and st marys death camp as a hospital .
where are all these people going to work.
This must be another back hander for the council along with the £3.2 million refund they got back from mainstay marine for the floating bridge fiasco all under an NDA agreement so the public won’t find out
How many more times do the idiots have to be told NO. The present infrastructure (espl. healthcare) can’t take any more.