A seafront toilet block in Sandown could soon be sold by County Hall for just £1.
The proposed disposal of the Pier Street Regeneration Opportunity to Sandown Town Council (STC) is set to be considered by councillors on the policy, finance and resources committee soon.
Located opposite Sandown Pier, the building has been used as public toilets between 2019 and 2025 for around 3 months of the summer season, according to a council report.
The document says STC is initially interested in carrying out limited works and reopening the WCs, moving toward a ‘more comprehensive scheme’ once plans and funding proposals have been drawn up.
It says:
“The Pier Street site is a high-profile regeneration opportunity in an important tourist destination on Sandown seafront and was identified as part of the former Regeneration Directorate’s approved regeneration strategy.
“Planning consent was obtained for a regeneration scheme, and the site has been marketed twice, albeit on both occasions proving abortive.
“The future of this site has regularly been discussed with STC which, during the period between 2019 and 2025, has funded the partial operation of these public conveniences for approximately three months of the summer season.
Article continues below this advertisement “The facility provided is the use of the former ladies WCs as a unisex facility (the former gents WCs element of the building has remained closed).”
Various challenges are highlighted in the report, including planning conditions for and the potential costs of public realm works, a lack of viability due to such conditions and the planning requirement to reprovide public conveniences if the current facility is lost.
Committee members have been recommended to endorse the transfer of the freehold development opportunity at Pier Street to STC for the ‘notional sum of £1’. Full council will then decide on the transfer.
The proposal is conditional and subject to STC carrying out satisfactory due diligence.
The recommendation says:
“Any transfer should be conditioned such that STC is committed to the provision of public conveniences from the property until such time as any regeneration might take place”.
If regeneration of the site leads to the loss of WCs within the new development, this cannot take place until STC provides new public conveniences, it adds.
This must be to the satisfaction of County Hall and within the vicinity of the current facility.
The committee will meet at County Hall at 17:00 on 5th February.
At present this is the Islands “FREE” parking place
just pull up onto the pavement in a Vehicle pedestrianised
zone evading paying IW COUNCILS £12.00 a day+ parking
charges.
THE COUNCIL PLEAD POVERTY AND SAY YHEY NEED EXTRA MONEY
“SO WHY LET VEHICLES PARK FREE OF CHARGE”
YET ALONE IN A PEDESTRIANISED ZONE
It is not the Isle of Joke for nothing!
WHO IS RUNNING THE SHOW MICKEY MOUSE OR DONALD
FCUKING DUCK!
Don’t keep increasing our Council taxes due to incompetence.
Sandown Council could turn this into paid for parking
and do away with the pedestrianised zone
WHERE ELSE IN ENGLAND WOULD A COUNCIL LET
VEHICLES PARK IN A PEDESTRIANISED ZONE!!
ONLY ON THE NO HEALTH AND SAFETY ISLE OF WIGHT
It should be up for public auction. I bid £1.10 with the proposal of turning it into the world’s foulest smelling nightclub
What’s the betting the same persons who bought
the Pier for a couple of pounds and sadly closed
the theatre down will try and buy the free parking lot
for a pound.
“Cheaper than parking a car for a day”.
It should run by Sandown Town Council or Sandown
Carnival.
They could provide cheap snacks and drinks
not everyone wants to pay £3.00+ for a coffee or tea.
The profits made could be pumped back into the town
not into the pockets of greedy individuals.
The real Enough is Enough, not an impersonator.
Lol
That’s good then stay like it for a few more decades till it’s burnt out or knocked down.
Development opportunity my bottom. County hall is offloading a facility that is failed to maintain for a local council spend its budget getting it back to a usable standard. Cheating, underhand, and consistently incompetent are just some of the words that pop up in my mind
Selling this for just £1, bog off.