Plans for housing in Wootton are being called before the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee for deliberation later today (Tuesday).
Wiltshire-based company, Maritime and Provincial Ltd, is seeking outline permission for 29 houses — with a potential 10 affordable properties — on a greenfield site on Station Road.
The application, however, is only asking whether the site’s proposed access, internal road layout and parking would be acceptable. Other planning considerations, including the site’s appearance, scale, layout and landscape, would be dealt with through a reserved matters application at a later date.
Council officers have suggested the development be given conditional permission.
In a report going before the committee later today, officers say it has been referred for the final decision due to the application raising marginal and difficult policy issues.
Some of the application’s main considerations include the principle of development, impact on the surrounding area’s character and highway issues.
While Island Roads has raised no objection, it did suggest a number of conditions including the introduction of double yellow lines along a stretch of Station Road to increase visibility, a construction management plan and requested more details.
Wootton Bridge Parish Council and 71 residents, however, have objected to the plans, saying it is outside the development area. They have raised concerns over flooding and have questioned the lack of ecology report as the area is known for bats, glow worms and red squirrels.
After responding to comments, officers recommend the development is approved with 24 conditions and financial contributions made to the rights of way in the area and the Bird Aware Solent mitigation strategy as well as ensuring 35% of housing on-site would be affordable.
In their report, they say there is a clear need for proposed housing as only 32 new dwellings were built in the area in the last 10 years. According to the council’s housing needs assessment, undertaken in 2018, 77 new homes should be built a year.
They say the development would not dominate the public realm and be in context with the surrounding area, ‘effectively squaring off this part of Wootton’.
You can follow along with the meeting from 16:00, where the final decision will be made, and read the officer’s report in full at www.iow.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=163&MId=510.
It’s Greenfield Greenfield. Greenfield !!!!!!!!!
Conditional approval ????
Shouldn’t even be considered …..
It’s Greenfield !!!!!!
Unless the brown envelope appears ????
Then the colour could change !!!
Ten affordable home’s —- fifteen fat profits …
Watch this space ,another piece of the concrete jungle …..
Can’t get a Dr’s / Dentists / Hospital appt ?????
Well it will only get tougher …..
Ah, but those top councillors, those on planning, and those developers will have PRIVATE doctors, dentists and hospital treatment, along with private education for their children.
They ensure they live well away from the ruination they create for others.
So, why would they care?
Once the Island is ruined they will move elsewhere, for their love is money and lifestyle, not the place.
Once greenfield is built on, it is lost forever.
Better to build in Wootton than destroy decent parts of the Island
I have lived on the Island all my life & this is heartbreaking for me to see us becoming more & more overcrowded & the traffic is bad enough now ! Without adding to it.
Please note it says POTENTIAL for 10 ‘affordable’ properties…
It is perfectly normal for Developers to pay an additional ‘charge’ and then not have to build the so-called affordable properties, and, the ‘charge’ is in all reality only a nominal fee!
Can we stop this development!? I need my house price to go up some more and that will not happen if they start building affordable houses. Can’t have the lower classes buying houses, I have rental properties I need to rent out at above my mortgage payments. How can I leach of the poor if they can buy their own homes.
Lots of empty properties on the island.
There should be a law, that makes it illegal to build on Greenfield sites, until all of the run down empty shops and flats are ALL renovated AND occupied.
Who are these houses for, obviously not for the Island’s homeless. Green fields are for grazing or growing not for profiteering developers.
The link is incorrect, it is actually: https://iow.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=163&MId=510
Wiltshire-based company, Maritime and Provincial Ltd, is seeking outline permission for 29 houses
this bunch of environment wreckers don’t even live on the island and are happy to profit at the expense of the islands environment and islanders quality of life.
this should be automatically rejected on the basis of overcrowding and climate emergency, that needs to protect greenfield sites.