The 3 Parish Councils of Sandown, Shanklin and Lake met on Tuesday (2nd May) to discuss the upcoming Bay Place Plan consultation work.
The aim is to work closely with residents, businesses and visitors who share a common interest and would benefit from an approach that unifies them, while celebrating their unique characteristics and the economic, social, and environmental challenges and opportunities in each location.
The consultation activities will be delivered by the tri-consortium of Feria Urbanism, Støriie and the Place Bureau who together presented an exciting and inspired consultancy application to the project board earlier this year.
Councillor Paddy Lightfoot, Mayor of Sandown said:
“It’s really good that we’re all working together.
“It has been long overdue and we’re going to work hard to engage with our local communities.”
Councillor Paul Brading, chairman of Lake Parish Council said:
“We’re delighted to be able to present the idea of the Place Plan to all our councillors and it’s brilliant that all councils are working collaboratively to bring it forward.
Article continues below this advertisement “I look forward to working with the consultants while they shape the plan for the future and help to deliver the recommendations from the final report. This will undoubtedly be a big step forward for the Bay area.”
Councillor Chris Quirk, Mayor of Shanklin said:
“The Bay Place Plan is essential for several reasons; namely, to give direction to the economic development of the area and to put us in a position to apply for central government funding to deliver on those aspirations.”
Councillor Julie Jones-Evans, cabinet member for Levelling Up, Regeneration, Business Development and Tourism said:
“Being able to use the place planning approach for regeneration means local people and businesses have real influence over shaping their places.
“We’ve seen this approach bear fruit in Ryde and Newport, where most importantly the distinctiveness of each place is recognised.
Seeing the 3 local councils working together on the new place plan is an important milestone for the island’s regeneration programme and the residents of the Bay.”
A 3-day residential “think space” will be held on the island in July, when it is anticipated that a significant number of stakeholders will exchange ideas in the quest for a shared vision through workshops, creative activities, and walking tours.
Never seen so many crooks in one room (apart from prison!)
Those of us in better areas of the bay don’t wish to end up funding the growing amount of dross and tax credit funded feral delinquent youth in Lake and Sandown
Remember that Councillors or YOU will be out next election
More talk no action
Sandown High Street, Esplanade and Culver Parade looks like It was blitzed overnight and no one
bothered to clear away the rubble.
It’s about time all the old dumps of Hotels are compulsory purchased, how can a
Council let the owners of these dumps bring an area down.
They did not show these dumps on the recent Alan Titchmarsh TV Show.
Time to clean up it is affecting tourism and affecting other business owners who are paying
extorninate business rates to run a business in a dump of an area.
Sandown Beach is gorgeous too.
What a wasted opportunity
Whilst all will agree the town looks an eyesore, can’t help wondering if the owners of those run down hotels are all part of a larger ploy to, as is happening, get the public incensed over the run down town, then that gives a green light for the Council and their seemingly symbiotic ‘relationship’ with the Pinks to ‘develop’ the whole sea front of Sandown, with ‘less or little’ critics as Victorian beauty is replaced by ugly, but more profitable flats and hotels.
What ‘better way’ of developing an area than have trashed buildings, burnt out places, and feral youth to ‘gain’ public support for the ruination of Brownes Golf course and the demolition instead of refurb of beautiful old buildings.
They know what there at
“It has been long overdue and we’re going to work hard to engage with our local communities
Really
Never in a month of Sunday. You lot can’t agree or make a positive decision on how many shoe laces you need in a pair of shoes so you’re fighting a losing battle on this one.
What we don’t want to happen here is those living in Shanklin having to share the financial costs of sharing the burden of Lake’s run down broken town and troublesome residents costs.
IF it is a case of ‘levelling up’ then the lower class areas should UP their game, and not have those people who are more civilised having to bail-out drugged, intoxicated, criminals and anti social yobs.
As all the time ‘others’ pick up the costs ‘they’ will do nothing to sort out their own very dirty laundry.
The Councillors should be aware of how the vote turned against the Tories who are forcing the decent people to accept the ‘unacceptable’ and expecting them to fund such.
Blah blah blah.Just repair the toilets on the escarpment.
Instead of the note on the door blaming the public for the closure make them fit for purpose.
still broken then?? that’s bee 4 plus months discusting thats great for tourism pathetic clowns all of them..
This should be interesting, or funny at most. Good luck
Funding for more meetings and nothing gets done?