Revised proposals have been submitted for the West Acre Park development in Ryde — extending the public consultation period.
Altered plans have been submitted by Captiva Homes, the applicants behind the development, to the Isle of Wight Council, responding to comments and concerns from statutory consultees.
According to planning agent, David Long, from BCM, the new plans have taken into account comments from Island Roads regarding the carriageway and footpath designs as well as site junctions.
Some of the houses in Phase D of the development have also been relocated to Phase B as they were potentially at risk in a Flood Zone, identified by the Environment Agency. This has added more area to public open space.
Design requests have also been adhered to, which include lowering the roof of the doctor’s surgery, landscaping to boundaries and ‘minor revisions’ to house type elevation, fenestrations and footprint positions.
A spokesperson for Captiva Homes said:
“We understand and welcome requests for more information throughout the planning process. Not only to ensure the risk to people and property is minimised but it also shows our planning process within our own local community is a fair one.
Article continues below this advertisement “We have had dialogue with the Woodland Trust, Natural England, the Environment Agency and Hampshire Police Authority, together with the case officer, and having taken all their comments on board we have made a number of amendments and improvements to the application.”
Comments on the application can now be submitted until 4th December with planning permission determined at a later date. To view the revised plans (20/01061/FUL), you can visit the Isle of Wight Council’s planning portal.
The landowners at Westridge Farm have recently written an open letter to Isle of Wight Council members explaining their side of the story, following media coverage of the farming family who are set to lose their business should the application be granted. The Holliday family have rejected an offer of £800,000 to move out of the land which they don’t own.
Captiva Homes, acting as Westridge Village (IOW) for this development, has said it is sympathetic to the situation of the farmer, Nigel Holliday, and his family, who may be leaving the land they have rented for many years.
The spokesperson said:
“The landowner has chosen to sell the farm and part of the site was proposed as suitable for housing development by the Isle of Wight Council in 2013.
“The team at Captiva Homes, as local people, felt a commitment to exploring this opportunity to ensure maximum protection and responsible development of the land by Islanders who care about our community.
“Unlike many other housebuilders, we are proposing a low-density scheme and we are also extremely passionate about working with local suppliers and trades to ensure maximum investment into the local community.
“We are also very aware of the critical need for new housing especially affordable housing on the Island and if approved West Acre Park will provide 166 affordable homes to local residents in need.”
Certain to be approved as the developer and council have a very close symbiotic relationship.
Very well put
This is the man who bought Brading Wax museum, built houses on the car park and basically ruined Brading
The island doesn’t need or want all these properties Captiva and Isle of Wight Council. Nice little thing the lot of you have got going huh……. VOTE THESE COUNCILLORS OUT AT THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY.
As far as I’m aware (correct me if I’m wrong), these new builds are not council houses or housing association.. so how is above comment even vaguely relevant?
Mr Couter
Every building project ‘has’ to provide homes for such, so I say that ally stairs statement still stands and expect an extra 200 social homes for this project of 1,000 homes, minimum.
Many of these private estates applications, AFTER gaining permission, often end up with a massive ‘change of heart’ by the developers when homes don’t sell in the quantities they are allocated to build. So they then ‘change the plans’ to fill the void with more ‘social housing’ but in reality this was KNOWN or expected from the ‘get go’, and is used by such ‘developers’ for two reasons.
One being they know more public objections will be forthcoming if ever more social housing is applied for when Ryde will be filled with such to a high amount already.
Secondly and more importantly to the greedy developer, a far, far higher price can be obtained by selling the early private homes to people then not ‘expecting’ to be living with those they would likely avoid at ever other time in their higher end lifestyle.
So they ‘hedge’ their bet, by filling the land with 80% private IF they can, and 20% social, yet IF they can’t get enough private buyers, then the ratio will grow in favour of the social tenants properties.
I KNOW how these people play the game, very easy when the council are so ‘accommodating’.
So, I say VOTE THEM OUT
I stand corrected.. incidentally the statement that the council is paid to take problem families from mainland urban areas appears in comments like clockwork month after month year after year.. if it’s true then fair enough but whenever I ask for any proof or link stating same all I get is dozens of thumbs down.. know people are passionately convinced it’s true, and maybe it is but never see any corroboration, and there’s many things that people repeat on here like Chinese whispers that are patently untrue as if saying it over and over and loud enough it somehow becomes true despite obvious evidence to the contrary .. anyway if it is so would be interested in proof other than heresay, then I have learnt something, but until then it’s just corner of the pub willfully uninformed chit chat like most polarised subjects in the country.. but I stand to be corrected but not by barrage of thumbs down 🙂 tks
Nonsense! Just 5% of housing (new builds) must be passed on to social housing. Stop scaremongering!
You don’t speak for me or my family. I welcome prosperity and employment on the Island.
Wait and see what we get landed with then and I’ll remind you about your comment. Then when your not happy and worried for your families safety, the crime rate increases dramatically and unpleasant things start happening………oh, the building of these vast estates bought jobs to the island……the island will be housing undesirables that we don’t want
Your behaviour is and comments are repugnant! You have absolutely no idea who will be housed here, the vast majority will be people who work or are retired that can buy their own home, please stop with your horrible rhetoric and comments that are just not true! Hardworking people come in all denominations..
Yes, I know this. The current plan is to house mainlanders on the council waiting list and people from far away countries who who have come here seeking a better life, probsbly in a small boat across the English Channel.
I hope this is meant to be some sort of sarcastic comment and you do not actually believe it.. if you do then it’s on a par with trump supporters thinking democrats are part of a satanic paedophile cabal, totally insane and ridiculous, but believed, that is the frightening thing, believed with absolutely nothing to back it up but insecure paranoic fantasies like 5G lamp posts causing covid
I would love to know what thy mean by ‘ Affordable ‘ certainly not by Island people.. !
Most Island people realise that here on the Island, wages are lower, job prospects are less, education is likely less intensive, night life is limited, as are the choice of shops, roads are poorer, and entertainment is less varied.
BUT, they accept all the above negatives quite willingly BECAUSE living here gives or GAVE, additional far more important qualities to our standard of life.
Now, thanks to this greedy council, who with their close developers, are going to remove much of the ‘advantages’ to us real Islanders, as overcrowding, crime, increased traffic, lack of work, crowded beaches and diminishing natural beauty is thrust rapidly upon us.
Those who have lived here for year, and pay the very huge wages, and expenses of those about to RUIN this Island, not for a while, but for the rest of time, for a fat profit, despise what they are in the process of doing, but, as they will live miles away from the horrors themselves, they care nothing, and soon will have outnumbered the locals views with additional new comers, with those who just see this as and escape from their own horrors, BUT will, by being here, bring the same to our Island.
Vote these selfish, thoughtless and greedy lot out, don’t expect others to do so, for apathy is another long bred Island trait as we have had it ‘good’ for a long time and don’t know what is about to hit us all.
The fact that the West Midlands Organised Crime Unit has had to get involved in Drug and Firearm offences on the Island only goes to reinforce these views
It’s just a gimmicky inclusion used in applications to con people into thinking that’s OK then. Never seen a realistic figure put on it.
There is no critical need for housing you dimwits – you are just trying to justify you decision to trash the environment with more benefit hutches for people to move into who are not from the island.
captiva are just liars and need it discussing in person.
Goodness me a Doctor’s Surgery has been mentioned in a planning application, Oh dear it’s an existing one !!!