Plans for the 900-home Pennyfeathers development in Ryde are back before the Isle of Wight Council after stalling last year.
Revised details have been submitted to the planning team to complete the major scheme, following an application at the end of 2020 which went quiet. The development has been kept alive through a series of minor applications and an extension from the government permitted to those housing schemes due to expire during the COVID pandemic.
The plans for the major development on the outskirts of Ryde include 904 residential units, a school, a community centre, a number of commercial buildings including a new Westridge Grage plus play areas, a new main road and a community energy centre.
Pennyfeathers was first put forward to the local authority in 2014 – almost 8 years ago – and gained planning permission in 2017 for the principle of development.
If the ground is ever broken, Phase 1 would see 123 homes built – of which 24% would be affordable and 11% shared ownership – as well as 4 commercial units, an energy centre and improvements made to Brading Road.
Overall, there will be 587 open market properties and 317 affordable properties – built over 7 phases.
The finer details of the application have been submitted by Hepburns Planning Consultancy and could be one of the final steps before work can get started.
Explaining the time it took for the application to come forward in 2020, Hepburns said it was the right amount of time for the submission of further details as there is a lot of work to be done.
“Quite clearly the driving force of this application is to bring forward suitable housing. This housing has to reflect housing need … Since the outline planning permission was granted the pressure to provide new housing has increased.”
To view the plans, 20/02159/ARM, you can visit the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 4th May.
More slums of the future on an already over busy and deprived island.
For the love of God, don’t do it.
And please give Brodie the night off when this comes up.
It would appear this Council wants this to go ahead, i wonder why?
Still no new doctors, dentists, bigger hospital etc etc that are badly needed before any more houses are built.
The infostructure is totally inadequate, but then i suppose the councillors go private.
This will be passed without a doubt. But the island doesn’t need a development of this size. Will the planners reject 904 homes and think, our road infrastructure is too small to cope with all the extra traffic, our one and only Hospital won’t cope, Dentists, GP surgeries, Schools all rammed to the gills.
Who are going to fill these homes? Islanders? Second home owners? Lawless scum transferred from the mainland? The island is slowly being ruined and this Council don’t give a fig. NO to this development please.
Where are the developers going to find the 4000 people and there 2000 cars to move into these properties.
Surely, there can not be that many homeless people on the island.
Also, where and how are they going to work ? This island is sinking.
Perhaps those who preferred not to support their fellow countrymen and fight or waive a white flag will be glad of a tiny box to shoe-horn their families into?
Charity comes at a high price for us, not the Government.
There are currently 350,000 people net being imported legally and illegally each year by Westminster and Whitehall and more than 7 in 10 new households in Britain are headed from someone born overseas, so that’s where the demand is coming from – it certainly isn’t coming from uk indigenous folk
They should turn the IW into a national park, same as the New forest and the South downs.
This would then slow down or stop building development completely,
No more brown envelopes.
Problems solved.
Vote tong, vote ting tong.
900 new houses? That’s getting on for 4,000 people. Where are all these 4,000 people who need new homes right now? They’re certainly not here on the Island already.
The Council need to come clean about this.
For once, LISTEN to what the people are saying. We don’t want and we don’t need all these new houses.
Either the council listen or eventually direct action is likely to be taken against the developers and the planning teams, by someone who is so aggrieved at the environmental destruction and stupid overcrowding. Think extinction rebellion, etc
This really is the last straw.
Direct action ? On the IW ?
I’m up for it.
Ting tong is right, but it will be to late by the time the next local/national elections come around.
Why don’t the green party or some new organisation pledge to make the island a national park.
Why can’t we have a local referendum ?
Otherwise, why bother with democracy in the first place.
I would wholeheartedly back a party which made a ‘no building on greenfield’ pledge, and was pro brownfield. There badly needs to be a clear out these councillors which are clinging on without any innovative ideas but doing real long-term damage to the Island.
The Green Party, with others, worked hard to get the IW Biosphere status. Had absolutely zero effect on Planning.
Does anybody with 5 fingers on each hand really think that we need both Westridge AND Pennyfeathers?
Of course, all this is being forced on us by the johnson and pals (who co-incidentally include developers), through our failing to come up with an Island Plan, thanks to the criminal idleness of the last (co-incidentally Tory) administration. Does anybody see a connection here?
As the Uk does nothing to deter unknown quantities of newcomers arriving on our shores and as none come with a home but ALL will end up with one, then clearly being nice and kind comes at a massive price which the countryside will pay. Add the fact that many have huge families then God help your children
The Council get paid handsomely for taking the troublesome families who keep getting moved from place to place on the mainland. Obviously, no council wants them in their borough/parish. These types will all end up here on the island. God help us!
Well he we go again !!!!!!!!!
Do our planning comedians not realise that they will need to invest in life boat’s, strategically moored around the island ????????
Because the weight of this concrete jungle jigsaw is getting damn close to sinking us all ……
Green belt being decimated…
Infrastructure not suitable in all area’s……
And then the added weight of your pension pot the final Nail in the coffin .!!!!!! Glug glue glue…
So sad, this will undoubtedly go through. Please don’t think that Ryde Town Council will save us from this, it has been seen with other developments that they actually have no say in what goes on in Ryde on important issues. RTC is just ignored by the County council.
Now IWCC, say the new Smallbrooke roundabout is all about our safety!!
I think we all guessed that one Jill.
The oldest trick in the book was being employed by our local authority to deflect attention away from the real reason. Whenever we see the council/ island toads telling us something is in our interests and everything is going to be improved, sniff the air!
Yup…another rat.
The Hepburns‘ won’t be moving anywhere near that sprawl that’s for sure. It wouldn’t meet the aspirations for the kind of lifestyle they’ve become accustomed too.
Please lets stand together and get behind the Crowd Justice Save Westridge Farm Campaign, and fight for democracy. The case is prepared for judicial review, just short of £2,500 to take the IWCC to court. This is our one chance to teach the IWCC we can not be continually ignored.
Jill – a timely reminder!
More countryside to be destroyed for pointless housing that we don’t need just to clog up the roads and hospital even more
Oh dear, there’s me thinking they’d all returned to Guernsey or the mainland, or wherever.
Obviously, no forward thinking here – instead of growing houses on the Isle of Wight, we (i.e Government) should be paying Farmers (what is left of them) to grow food crops, wheat/corn, especially – (remember Marie Antoinette’s throwaway remark?)
So another 4000+ people looking for a dentist, along with the rest of the Island population! Surely a development this size should only be allowed to go ahead if it includes its own health centre and dentist?
Maybe the IOW could hand out visa type applications just like Australia so the people who actually move to the island from the mainland have a career or qualifications such as doctors, nurses, dentists carers to fill the shortfall of experienced workers rather than those that will put more strain on services and benefits.
I agree in principle with your view, but the provision of a Health Centre and Dental Surgery if built is NO solution , as they will not be manned, current Surgeries are unable to meet public demand in both NHS Dentistry & GP care, simply because there are not enough qualified staff.
It is time Planning Committees got real and understood that the smoothly worded planning submissions, written by experts in PR are not worth the paper they are written on. Time after time proposed facilities are never brought to fruition. THESE UNNECESSARY DEVELOPMENTS ARE MOTIVATED ONLY BY GREED ONLY.
The world needs more locally produced food and more trees.
Unfortunately it’s a given, why was all this infrastructure work done at Smallbrook…..!! Clearly done ahead of planning submissions so that road safety and infrastructure couldn’t be used as a reason to say no. It’s coming and together with Westridge Ryde will grow exponentially but no extra GPs, dentists, hospitals. Scandalous, no trust in our leaders.
This is where THE people get it wrong.
They are not our leaders.
They are our servants and so called
REPRESENTATIVES !!!!
The politicians have to be reminded of this on a daily basis, (as do the public).
Amazing, these homes plus the ones for Westridge farm total well over a thousand properties in one area… will the area get its own name ? As others have said, no doctors ?? Where will the people go ? NO hospital beds at St Mary’s, where they going to go ? QAs for dentists , well is difficult as it is for Islanders at present to find one !!
What about power supply?? They going to build a small nuclear reactor, to power all these properties.. A desalination plant for water, and then the sewerage..? These latter items will cause many roadwork delays..
I also thought some of that area was protected due to certain protected insects..??
Can you advertised to let people know ‘ HOW MUCH does an AFFORDABLE home cost ?? ‘ Many people on this Island work zero hour contracts, how do they get a mortgage.. ?
Just keeping the application alive, until it can be sold on.
Indeed rumours afoot the two developers cannot agree and planning will lapse if that is the case….let’s hope they continue to disagree about the unwanted slum they are so intent on building!
recession is coming they will struggle to get financing or sell those houses….this development may fail for that reason
Sadly not, when recession bites, and it will bite hard, the low lives know that by having more children they are protected and far, far better off than a single person on benefits. They are pushed to the top of the housing list, whereas a single person not a chance in hell.
So, the building will go ahead, but instead of buyers, just dole scroungers with rent subsidised by us, and lofts filled with tents, and gardens filled with Mc D’s boxes.
Watch, and learn.
I hope that everyone has noticed, this council is no different to the one that had to be got rid of…. and it goes on different people same sh**. Ever hear a peep from the greens about more pollution, more cars……
the water run off from this development means extra flooding at the bottom of Ryde , climate change more rain ?
All those against this development can put their objections into planning, local council’s and Mr Seely, it MIGHT help to stop it. I wonder if Southern water could cope with all the extra cr fluids, they seem to be struggling at the moment. Who is actually is selling the land?
There are 3200 second homes on this island that’s why they need to build more they wouldn’t be needed otherwise
We can deal with this problem very easily, isn’t the local election due?