A housing plan refused by the Isle of Wight Council just 10 months ago is back on the table.
The hybrid application is looking, once again, to build 149 homes on the edge of Gunville.
The revised plans have sought to address concerns that led to the plans being thrown out by the authority’s planning committee last year, including inadequate access and the wider impact on highways.
Despite ‘seriously considering’ appealing the committee’s decision — which went against council planning officers’ advice — applicants DN Associates and planning agent Andrew White say they have identified changes that would help reduce concerns.
In the previous plans, access would have been through 2 roads on the estate. A third has now been identified via the next door Ash Lane development. This means traffic would be able to access Gunville Road through 2 routes, a ‘significant step’, Mr White said, as it spreads the load of additional traffic across the wider network.
Another concern was the impact the increased traffic would have on the Waverley Roundabout at the top of Carisbrooke High Street, with the refused schemes based on traffic surveys from 2016.
Updated traffic surveys and modelling have been undertaken which Mr White says demonstrate no capacity problems at any of the relevant junctions as a result of the proposed development — including the roundabout. The outcome of the 2021 surveys, Mr White goes on to say, shows in some cases there were fewer movements on the roads than 2016 and at the Waverley Roundabout over 200 fewer vehicles came up Carisbrooke High Street during the afternoon peak, compared to the previous data.
To help mitigate the traffic impact in the area, DN Associates are prepared to make a financial contribution to the council to see the potential re-opening of Taylor Road — which would connect Wellington Road and Gunville Road — should it be necessary as part of the overall planning balance.
Another change to the plans has been to set aside 12 community parking spaces to replace those on the existing estate that might be lost should the access roads be installed.
The bulk of the applications has remained the same with more than 50 affordable houses proposed out of the total 149.
You can view the plans, 22/00629/OUT and 22/00631/FUL, on the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 16th May.
Probably less road usage in 2021 due to Covid why not do another one now?
Before any more housing we need a larger hospital .
Looks like the Council won’t need their 15 yr Bible plan !!!!!!
With the amount of houses being built should be finished ooh by 2023 !!!!!
Totally ridiculous ….
No point in stating about our infrastructure – care home’s Hospital Doctors lack of Dentists ! Because they don’t care one iota ….
And no point electing anyone else cos they all promise the earth and then concrete over the whole island….
They are all tarred and feathered with the same brush …
I wonder whether the council members ever read the comment here on Island Echo, I doubt it as as it may disturb their beauty sleep…
Why is no one getting it, until we have an Island plan in place our green fields are well in the sights of developers. with the sanctions against us for not having a plan, the planning office have to rule in favour of sustainable development if they reject an application the developers will take it to appeal where it will probably be granted, that then means the developers costs are payed for by the Council (in other words you and I are paying for it) the latest IPS has reduced the number of houses below the Governments targets yet it has been delay again with no reason given. GET THE PLAN UP AND RUNNING.
Here come the NIMBY lot moaning and bitching about the island being concreted over whilst they benefiting from past house building schemes. They will be the first to change their tune when the ambulance they called for does not turn up as the drivers have been priced out of the market and move back to the mainland. All the people stopping the building seem to forget that we’re short on emergency staff because they can’t find a place to live on the island. The ambulance service has stated that jobs that had been filled where not taken up because the driver could not find a home.
Drivel
How many emergency workers were given priority in the east cowes development? Or the place road development? None east cowes went to social housing mostly from the mainland and place road they were priced out of by the greedy developers!
My nephew is a paramedic and moved to the mainland to get an ‘affordable’ house!
This council doesn’t give a fig until election time
Taylor Road runs past schools, can you imagine the disruptions with buses pulling up, car parking, not to say access to homes and increase in congestion in that area. Before anymore building takes place on Island the sewerage/waste water, medical care and dental care needs to be increased as none can cope with the number of people currently residing on the Island.
I guess this is being pushed again due to the fully manned additional health centre and dentist complex now planned to care for the influx of people coming in to populate the area.
The present provisions fall far short of government guidelines, indeed it’s a puzzle how all these developments are allowed to go ahead, when it’s known that the required facilities are not in place
if you have met any of the councillors in person or heard them speak, then you will know precisely why these developments keep showing up and more houses are built, despite the lack of infrastructure being the elephant in the room.
If you haven’t met them or heard them speak, then I will tell you …. It is because the councillors aren’t that intelligent and blindly follow each other, as they would rather be wrong as a group than on their own.
More greenfield land going !
There will be food shortages soon, so this land should be cultivated.
But we still do not have enough dentists, doctors or bed space at the hospital.
No houses should be built till all the above is sorted.
Wonder what the population density is here now… it must be getting near to what some cities are. Ghetto island.