Plans to extend an Isle of Wight housing estate will be debated by Newport and Carisbrooke Community Council on Monday (2nd October).
As previously reported by Island Echo, Gallantgreen is proposing 20 houses – with the potential for 100s more – between Mountbatten Drive and Sylvan Drive.
Concerns have been raised by residents about the plans’ impact on wildlife, including due to an increase in traffic and greenfield development.
Islanders are invited to attend the meeting, which will start at 18:00 at 64 High Street, Newport, on Monday.
1 local resident, Karen Edwards, has raised worries over the potential loss of what she called valuable public green space, saying it is something locals don’t want to lose. She said footpaths through the site are used for nature walks and are a safe route home for schoolchildren.
She also slammed plans to make St Augustines Road a through road, instead of a cul-de-sac, upsizing it from the existing 3 houses to 10, and providing access across Petticoat Lane footpath to an as yet unbuilt 13 houses.
Other residents are split.
1 said development was inevitable as there had always been plans to build extra houses there, while another said while they understood houses needed to be built, it would turn greenfields into a concrete jungle.
Gallantgreen is also seeking permission for the principle of development and access to the rest of the site – a further 6 hectares.
In 2000, 203 new houses were approved but were never built.
View the plans, 23/01410/FUL, on the Isle of Wight Council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 6th October.
enough already, our island cannot take any more, our gp’s are overloaded we cannot get NHS dental care, our hospital is a joke with a 48 week waiting list for cataract surgery which is a day surgery taking 45 minutes, our water, electricity and sewage systems are unable to cope with the loads and our roads are a disgrace.
All these are valid points .. infrastructure and services should come first over developers looking for a fast buck ….. and the reason we love the island is the green spaces not the concrete jungle of the mainland ….
All the points you make are not the fault of housebuilding it is a failure by central government to fund the essential services.
That’s a valid point but adding more houses is still stupid if the infrastructure, especially heath services, isn’t being brought up to an adequate level.
no its the developers not taking into account the need for these services when building these cardboard houses
How very dare you blame our Tory government!
It’s local people who already live here.
And so it goes on ,the concrete jungle jigsaw is getting bigger every /day / week …. etc….
Look at Godshill ,rabbit hutch upon rabbit hutch, ….
When will the council listen?????
Our infrastructure is crap …..
Just say NO, we need our Greenfield sites for all our flora and fauna, not fat profits for builders……
It’s funny really though those living near to this site in their own little paradise and objecting ever thought about when they moved in on their development did anyone protest about their houses being built. Just a thought not a criticism.
But they were wrong to object to my home, I’m a nice person, I deserve a nice home. The village is full now.
Hospitals, GP’s, dentists, not to mention our antiquated road systems cannot cope now. Our Island cannot sustain any new population from the mainland or abroad. The only way these home should be permitted is if they are sold to existing Island residents only. To allow anything else would be a disaster for the Island!
But it’s local people who already live here. Not adding to population.
1.2 million Whitehall issued visas last year and the same again this year(plus a promise of bigger increases on that number if either of the opposition parties are voted in) – these houses will be the tip of the iceberg because they’ll need to carpet every inch of the island and everywhere else with rabbit hutches to accommodate the masses they fully intend to import
Every week there seems to be a developer wanting to build hundreds of houses on greenfield sites, always stating the Island needs more houses. There are currently over 2000 houses and flats for sale here – with about 450 at £200k or less – a lot more ‘affordable’ than most ‘affordable’ properties on these new developments. Many hardworking Island families will not be able to afford these new houses – even the IOW Council’s own Housing Affordability Survey stated this.
If these developments continue the diamond isle will lose its sparkle
just build build build