Plans to build 127 new homes in the West Wight have resurfaced in a revised form.
Tallulah Estates has lodged an outline application with County Hall for a housing estate next to Freshwater’s Camp Road.
The plans including access roads, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) provision and landscaping.
In November 2024, the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee voted against a 127-home scheme off Camp Road as part of a different application. The refusal was due to ‘inadequate and deficient’ information relating to surface water drainage and impacts on environmentally protected areas, and surveys of protected bat species.
New homes for the revised proposal will be 35% ‘affordable’ and designed to a ‘high quality’, with a ‘range’ of unit types and sizes, according to a statement from the Andrew White Planning Consultancy.
It says:
“This outline application seeks to deliver 127 homes and associated infrastructure, making a significant contribution to housing supply within a large thriving village environment.
“Failing to support this application would be a failure of the requirement to provide the right housing in the right location to support the current and future generations of the local community.
Article continues below this advertisement “The fundamental facts being that there is an undeniable need for both market and affordable housing.
“The proposal can provide an attractive, functional and accessible environment that contributes to the sense of place.
“The scheme considers existing constraints such as adjacent residential areas, topography, views, ecology and other landscape features to be well situated against the landscape character.”
County Hall’s public consultation on proposal 25/01505/OUT closes on 28th November and a decision is due on 23rd January.
reject it again – the island infrastructure cant cope with more people
There are many families who need housing,
many of whom are based on the mainland and need
homes.
They should stay on the mainland then? The island is becoming overcrowded, too many houses being built and not all being sold. It will ruin the beautiful views, too much traffic for a small road?
Another speculative company trying their arm at building unneeded homes, 100s remain unsold around westwight, no call for more empty buildings.
Maybe the Council will fill them with persons
Andrew (Gamekeeper turned Poacher) White says “Failing to support this application would be a failure of the requirement to provide the right housing in the right location to support the current and future generations of the local community.”
Empty words which echo those delivered by Captiva in Rookley and now in Godshill and have proven to be NOT for the “local community”, but a option for second homers from the mainland.
Quite possibly the HA will make a bid for a job lot as Godshill Site
There are currently 105 properties for sale in Freshwater according to Rightmove. Why are more needed?
Well spoken Sarah and JS83. This is about greed, not need.