Planning applications relating to the extension of Nicholson Road industrial estate in Ryde have been submitted by the Isle of Wight Council as part of the Island’s regeneration plans.
The council intend to create a community-focused workplace incorporating civic services and access to shared green space. This will include a community hub with a GP surgery, pharmacy, cafe, gymnasium, community hall and a mixture of retail units. as well as a small number of residential flats.
In addition, there will be an office ‘campus’ and around 18 industrial units of varying sizes catering for businesses looking to acquire 1,000sqft up to 90,000sqft.
A full planning application for infrastructure works seeks permission relating to internal roads, drainage channels, balancing ponds, landscaping, lighting and other works associated with the major scheme.
A new main road will connect with the existing Nicholson Road estate at Royal Mail and carry on through to Smallbrook Lane, with a ‘northern highway’ and ‘southern highway’ branching off providing access to the new industrial units. One of the biggest changes for the motorist will be the ability to bypass the T-junction at the top of Smallbrook Lane, instead being able to navigate through Nicholson Road to connect with Great Preston Road by the fire station. Smallbrook Lane will be widened by 1.6m in 2 locations and reconfigured to allow a turn-right lane to be created for traffic heading down the lane.
A total of 669 parking spaces will be created by the scheme, but it is planned for Southern Vectis buses to serve the extended estate providing an alternative mode of transport for employees and visitors.
A second application, which is seeking outline permission for the community hub and business estate as a whole, has also been submitted. Further applications will need to be submitted relating to the particulars of each phase, such as materials and the exact layout.
The scheme will result in the building of a variety of different buildings for a mixture of uses including: A1 Retail – 299 m2; A3 Café – 120 m2; B1 (a) Office – 4,746 m2; B1 (b&c) Business Park – 5,072 m2; B2 General Industry – 14,638 m2; C3 Residential – 15 Dwellings; D1 Health – 1,216m2 and D2 Community – 869 m2.
The development could potentially be delivered in 4 main phases:
• Phase 1 – development of the community hub, new highway connection to the Nicholson Road, landscaped east to west route, landscape buffer enhancements to the south western boundary and attenuation ponds required for Phase 1
• Phase 2 – development of the office campus buildings and supporting infrastructure, remaining attenuation ponds, new highways connection to Smallbrook Lane and all enabling works for business park phases 2B, 2C and 2D
• Phase 3 – development of general industrial units in business park phase 3B
• Phase 4 – development of general industrial units and all enabling works for business park phases 4B and 4C
The expansion of Nicholson Road was first announced in 2016 and back then was expected to create more than 800 new jobs.
You can comment on the planning application until 11th October by visiting https://publicaccess.iow.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=PX96DOIQ07V00.
How much will the council charge for the carpark?
I’m interested to know who is funding this ‘community hub’? The council? As it includes a gp surgery who funds this? Where will the gps come from -another struggling surgery? Our gp surgeries cannot attract new gps yet suddenly we get another surgery? This whole thing smacks of being a sweetener to stop people objecting to the building on green fields. 800 jobs? Where from? The building work will employ a few hundred very temporarily until the work is complete- no long term jobs here. But we will be left with yet more green fields lost under concrete-exactly the opposite of what our planet needs now.
We don’t need this area to be developed like this, it will ultimately connect with the Pennyfeathers appalling scarring development that will blight Ryde, it’s community and environment. No.
Brilliant news.
Disgusting. The beauty of the smallbrook valley lost, not for a while, but for the rest of eternity. Ancient hedgerows grubbed out, bulldozed into heaps and burnt, wildlife squashed and destroyed, more traffic on already busy roads to bottle neck further.
Of COURSE the council will agree, as they own much of the land there, and, you can be sure, ‘they’ will be living miles away from the misery they happily create for the residents of Ryde outskirts.
More green fields lost to concrete, mainland overspill, many of whom are forced out by the UK’s unchecked immigration policy, which is now seriously effecting island life indirectly.
Ryde will be now ruined, not for a while, but FOREVER.
With Ryde high st decimated by on-line shopping and out of town superstores we want more retail units? This will become a rat run for traffic and a ghost town for buisness just so our councillors can pocket a few quid.
This is housing development by the back door. You will note that it says “C3 Residential – 15 Dwellings”
Those will be the “core” houses for the future plan of building houses on the entire plot, when the retail and business units fail to deliver the expected occupation rates and revenue.
The council will then state that the area is no longer “greenfield” as it has been used as a business park and is now brown field. Which is ripe for redevelopment into a new housing estate. The 15 dwellings will be at the centre, with the rest built around them and the access roads that will already be in place.
This should be stopped – it isn’t needed or wanted.
read the original plan… the council state that they must come up with new solutions, as their budgets are being cut. So, they are developing the land with council tax payers money, with a view to rinsing anyone who lives or works there, to line their own pockets.
They do not care about the island, its green status and clean air, all they care about is raking in more cash for themselves and then effing off to the mainland to live.
Get rid of them and their dumb plan.
Simeon Street rec could become a permenant under water play park with all the extra run off rain water from the roofs and road drains. What with all the development on Woodland View off Ashley Road too
I can remember when there were cows in all those ajoyning fields and all the locals drove the farmer out, better the devil you know .