More than 40 objections have been submitted for a development on the outskirts of Newport, with neighbours fearing it could be turned into a rat-run.
A planning application has been submitted by Mrs C Ferns, of the Cotton Trust, to the Isle of Wight Council asking for outline permission to build 14 homes on Landscape Lane.
The applicant says it is a significant positive opportunity and could see 2, 3 and 4-bed houses built as a mix of 1 and 2-storey properties, in 2 cul-de-sacs.
Comments on the application have now closed but not before gathering numerous objections from residents of Lansdscape Lane, who have also put up signs on their property.
Main issues appearing in the objections included currently farmed land being turned into houses, the impact on local wildlife (toads) and the size of the lane with problems of a visibility blackspot at the end of the lane.
One objector said:
“This proposal constitutes an undesirable intensification of residential development at a density which would be out of keeping and incompatible with the existing development in the locality”.
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Newport and Carisbrooke Community Council said it strongly recommendeds refusal. It said:
“The proposal, containing sizeable houses, does not meet any identified local needs … for smaller, affordable one and two-bedroom properties.
“The number of properties contained in this application also appears to deliberately miss the affordable housing figure to avoid any financial contribution which is disappointing.”
Local ward councillor Matthew Price said the application was neither wanted nor needed. He said:
“I will be calling it in for determination and we will have a robust argument against it, if the planning officers recommend it for approval.”
Concerns were also raised about the ownership of the land, with questions raised over a seeming lack of information.
Planning agent for the development, Phil Salmon, clarified the land has been owned by the same family for almost 100 years after it was bought by local dairy farmer Frank Cotton in 1922.
Mr Salmon said after Mr Cotton’s death in 1955 he left the land ‘in trust’, known as the Cotton Trust, to his grandchildren which has now been passed down to his great-grandchildren.
The applicant named in planning documents, Mrs C. Ferns, is part of 1 of 4 families who make up the private, family trust.
Where’s Sausage Bob, isn’t he going to object to this one, of course not.
Well, he has objected actually, read the local news.
Moan moan moan , just let them crack on with the building project.
Do you ever think about the islands infrastructure, it can’t cope with many more houses, roads, 1 hospital…. It’s not moaning, but you sure are single minded, I guess your either a builder or a developer.
Forget your bipolar medication?
Two words…greedy twats hope its stopped.i live nearby.bugger off eleswhere
DON’T OVER DEVELOP THE ISLAND. Homes for island people only who are on the waiting list. NO MORE SECOND HOMES OR PEOPLE FROM FAR AWAY FOREIGN LANDS………
Agreed
Is that mr salmon ? The same 1 who’s trying to build 52 houses there in St Helen’s , if its not my opologies, but if it is hes got more flys than on cows shit
YES SPIDERMAN I THINK ITS THE SAME ONE. WHY CANNOT THEY JUST GO AWAY WE DONT NEED OR WANT ANY MORE HOUSES ON THIS LOVELY ISLAND WE HAVE TROUBLE GETTING DOCTORS APPOINTMENTS AND HOSPITAL ONES AS WELL SO GO AWAY AND BUILD SOME WHERE ELSE.
where does Mrs Ferns live – does she live next door to her proposed building site and subsequent pollution and refuse generation centre.
i bet she doesn’t live anywhere near the environmental carnage she wishes to impose on yet another greenfield site, with the help of a slimy developer.