A planning application has been submitted to the Isle of Wight Council to create 5 new houses in a residential area of Ryde.
The plans will see 4 bungalows and 1 house built on land on Victoria Crescent, the former home of the Isle of Wight Council’s parks and beaches department.
Planning permission has been sought to build dwellings on the land before. In 2018, Mr Stephen Darch, put forward plans to build 6 houses. Those plans were originally rejected and the application was changed in 2019 to just 5 houses to be built, which was approved. However, the 3-year time limit lapsed forcing this new application.
In June 2020, plans on the same site were also put forward to turn the unused land into a container depot that would house 45 containers and up to 10 motorhomes/caravans. It’s said that the tandem applications allowed options to remain open.
The applicant – which is now the executors of Mr Darch’s estate following his passing in January 2022 – have chosen to go ahead with the residential application as it is deemed more suitable and favoured by the local residents.
Current plans will see 5 residential dwellings situated on the land, consisting of 1x 2-bed, 3x 3-bed and 1x 4-bed properties, with all the properties detached offering 2 parking spaces each.
Access to the houses – if built – will be off Victoria Crescent.
Another piece in the concrete jungle jigsaw !!!!!
Are they going to be affordable ??????????
It all adds up 5 here 6 there etc etc etc!!!!!!!
Bet it gets the go ahead……
Its already had the ho ahead, this is a renewal.
The reason is they are not affordable is because the owners is only interested in money
4 bungalows and a detached house?
Of course they aren’t affordable.
At least not by Islanders.
Concrete jungle? These would literally be in the middle of a residential area. Surely, if we’re going to build houses then the best place is in an existing residential area rather than on open green space or parkland?
I personally would rather see a few houses built here and there in and around existing towns rather than whole new estates of hundreds of houses built on farmland or other open spaces.
The same application had already been previously approved, it had just lapsed due to time.
We still need green space in built up area’s !!!!!
More car’s more people ( 2nd homes holiday homes)
More housing More strain on the infrastructure!!!
We need affordable housing for islanders , on brownfield site’s …..
All green spaces support wildlife and we need to maintain wildlife….