A bid to construct a wooden boat store unit on the picturesque seafront at Seaview is facing opposition from the Parish Council.
Nettlestone and Seaview Parish Council objected to Timothy Lyle’s planning application for a 4m x 8m garage at The Esplanade.
The local authority cited a ‘destruction of green space’ and the ‘overdevelopment of an area’ next to woodland.
In a letter to the Isle of Wight Council, Mr Lyle wrote:
“I am proposing a simple wooden garage unit (which is a little higher than a normal garage to allow for the storage of boats upright and to provide a small mezzanine sail storage area) similar to those boathouses placed on this site by my mother in the past but have since rotted away.
“All surveyed trees are to be retained within the scheme and there is no clearance required for this proposal.”
Referencing an Ecological Statement submitted for a neighbouring unit, he said the application site offers ‘little ecological integrity’.
County Hall’s public consultation on the application finishes on 7th March and a decision is expected on 1st April.
I hope you get it, cant see the problem
It’s a seafront, what is wrong with having boats
there?, Bembridge is full of ugly containers and
no one minds.
Let it happen, bunch of Nimbys as usual.
There are such buildings round the corner in Seagrove, which make it look like the seaside. How did they get permission for those monstrosities that pose as “beach huts” which don’t add any character to the surroundings at all? Bonkers.