Retrospective planning permission is being sought for the site of a former reservoir in Sandown which is being turned into a private garden.
The former Sandown Reservoir, near to The Heights, was sold by the Isle of Wight Council last year to its neighbour, with its future use restricted to garden purposes only.
Now, a change of land use application has been submitted to the council seeking retrospective permission for some of the work already undertaken at the property on Old Reservoir Lane.
Concerns had been raised by neighbours in October last year about work on the site. The council then said it was for the new owner of the site to take responsibility, including managing it according to any designations applying.
Unauthorised but uncompleted works on the site have since been noticed by the council’s planning enforcement officers.
Planning documents submitted to the council ask to sit metal containers, a summer house and terrace on the site, constructing an extended patio area and garden walls.
So far, concrete has been removed from the sides and base of the old reservoir with soil from the surrounding banks used to fill in the gaps.
The area has been incorporated into the garden and has been fenced in now, with plans to seed the lawn and add shrubs and landscaping.
To view the application, 22/00208/FUL, you can visit the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 11th March.
Darren, I hope you never need to apply for planning. Islanders have a poor attitude and moan about everything. This is a sure way to mess with someone’s life.
So, a natural parcel of land breaming with wildlife and an oisas of tranquility and not to mention a bit of local history,
Is now a private garden ?
And now the people who bought it want to fill it with metal containers for storage. Planning, and the people who bought it are a f’n DISGRACE !
Go back to the mainland, you are not welcome here.
Well done Darren, for bringing it to our attention.
Looks like a case of too little too late from the planning department yet again. What this report doesn’t say is the land shouldn’t be used as storage and car parking, so are the containers decorative? As for the car park area, just seems they like a long walk to the house? Just another green space and wildlife habitat gone for someone’s own purposes.
Typical of the council grabbing money for their own coffers by selling small parcels of land.
I hope the planning department will make an example of this case just to prove ownership doesn’t give you the right to just do as you please.
I’d like to believe that ,but fairy tales aren’t real are they
The NIMBY lot moan about green fields being used, yet when a brown field site is used they continue moaning. The NIMBY lot are killing jobs on the island.
It is/was very much not a brown field site, in fact, it WAS the complete opposite! Did you ever even visit the site, Foxes, Badgers, Bats, Squirrels, the lot.
The issue is the fact that a wildlife habitat has been desecrated without planning. Another green space for the benefit of not only the general public but also wildlife which unfortunately cannot speak for themselves. Lots of organisations are planting trees, protecting wildlife and making the world a better place for all that’s why councils have planning regulations, that’s what living in a democratic society is.
If you like built up areas I suggest you move to the mainland
Any Beaver going,still looking