Objections are once again mounting against the 900-house Pennyfeathers development in Ryde.
In a bid to determine final details of the scheme, a revised reserved matters application has been submitted setting out specifications for the layout, landscaping, appearance, access and scale.
Permission for the development was originally granted in September 2017 but has been quiet, with only minor applications before now.
Concerns are still being raised about the lack of information in the application, which is similar to one submitted in 2020.
A number of objections have been submitted to the Isle of Wight Council against the plans, including from Island Roads, Ryde Town Council and Nettlestone and Seaview Parish Council.
Ryde Town Council is calling for a new planning application to be submitted as a result of the delays and as a way for the developers to address all the concerns raised. The town council highlights the highway infrastructure as one of the most contentious points as the proposals are not backed up by a traffic report which identifies the capacity required for the new development.
It says the Nicholson Road business park carriageway changes on Smallbrook Lane will have a direct impact on the application but are not identified in the plans. However, the extension of the industrial estate has been put on hold by the Isle of Wight Council.
Island Roads has recommended refusal of the scheme due to insufficient information on the onsite road layout, parking and highway improvement, as well as the traffic impact.
The Ryde Society has said it will continue to oppose the scheme until the development is of good design and layout, is mindful of the Island’s biosphere status and dark skies aspirations, and address the infrastructure issues.
The public consultation period has now closed.
The plans include:
- 904 residential units
- a school and community centre
- commercial buildings
- relocation of Westridge Garage
- community energy centre
- sports building and changing rooms
- play areas
- highway improvements (introducing a roundabout on Brading Road)
we need more homes yes go for it
You think their building ‘homes’? How amusing. They will build nasty little brown boxes designed to eek every penny out they can. The people on the island who need a home will be unable to afford them. Nor will they be able to rent them.
Note, not ONE comment on the massive immigration that our country has endured recently.
As NO immigrant arrives with a home, and most have not the means to purchase a home, then it is obvious that these homes are being built to house displaced mainlanders wishing to move from areas that they no longer feel at home living within.
Ask many privately WHY they move here, the media of course can never say why anymore.
So whilst we thus far have low amounts of newcomers from afar, the knock on effect of the UK accepting so many means more mainland Brits now choose places like here to escape to.
Seems to me the council are sly. They own the field where the enlarged industrial estate will, once not on hold be built.
So they are waiting for Penny Feather to be forced into paying for a new roadway direct to the existing industrial estate.
Thus saving them the cost of paying for the road themselves then they await the massive destructive chavsville to be filled and sell the site to a new supermarket and Mc Donald’s etc to feed the breeding masses imported here to ruin the beauty, not for a while, but forever more.
They and developers have private health and education and dentistry and live miles away so care nothing about the lack of such for the plebs.
See them for what they really are
Go for what and how many // ??
At last people with sense !
If the planners let this go through the island infrastructure is doomed !!!!!
Do they ever engage their brains ?????
Or do they just think more council tax ??????
More pension fund’s ???
Seriously need to think how difficult it is to get an NHS dentist …our 1 Hospital….
Our care system ….
Job’s etc etc ….
If this goes through it will be one of the biggest unnecessary travesties for our small island ….
We cannot cope as it is without more unnecessary 2nd home owners …
Think about housing for the islanders .,..
WITH YOU 100000%
904 houses, so that’s probably between 1800 and 4,000 people just in this one development. Where are these thousands of people right now who are ready, willing and able financially to buy a property? Yes, there are some, obviously, but thousands of them? And this is just one development, where are all the people apparently waiting to move into the other estates? I very much doubt if they are here on the Island right now.
It will be 10000 people in few years. You know how these islanders breed with each other.
We need new homes! That may be the case, however we need to create affordable homes for the present population and not second homes that remain empty for much of the year, or homes that end up being bought and then rented out.
Another problem is then just how such a major development would be served when we have such a poor infrastructure, our present roads are in disrepair and struggling to cope.
How does our hospital cope with a larger population? Not to mention our lack of GP’S and Dentists. The list goes on and on.
Quite – let alone all that new sewage having to be disposed of …………………….
I sincerely hope this development doesn’t go ahead, we simply do not need them. There are not 904 homeless families. But I fear it has already been decided. As for the Town Council objecting – we have seen how much notice the Planners take of them – think of the Westridge development!
900 cars pouring onto brading road each day, as well as the current traffic volumes is a recipe for disaster.
what part of “no” do these developers not get – our environment is being wrecked, destroyed and killed in the pursuit of endless population increase policies on the island. While the “vested interests” watch their bank balances increase from the comfort of their homes, miles away, the island and islanders are drowning in houses/traffic and overcrowding. This must be refused on common sense grounds
900 cars at least, most homes will have 2 or more cars, so look more at 2000 more cars !! These will not be homes for Islanders, working part time or minimum wage full time, or those on zero hours contracts, these homes will be for mainlanders that can sell up and move here.. fools… look at the ferry prices… they will be the winners for years to come, not the house builders.. the Island will not benefit much at all.. will just mak us all more miserable, more crimes, too much traffic, no where to park…
Just stop it. The public services are totally inadequate and are failing miserably in supporting the present population. I realise the stupidly increased population is not necessary the Council’s own fault, but it is due to accepting Government house building targets, against which the Council should be far more vigorous in rejecting on the basis of being an Island.
Makes me wonder, how many homes are they proposing for the rest of Hampshire ?
Yes for God sake stop it. The island struggles to cope with the present population as it is. Hasn’t the governments housing targets changed, or about to ? Take note planners and hang fire. Once this green space has gone its gone forever. Just where are all these people going to WORK ??? Its all utter madness.
It will be ok, so long as you all recycle more, get rid of the car you absolutely need, feel guilty about being born, and of course pay more tax, then it will be a success, 900 carbon neutral homes wont have cost the earth, and the council will have saved the world, whilst destroying wildlife habitat, fields that could have been used for food, and a green space, all for the benefit of who?
just get on and build it
how many of these objectors are true islanders ?
how many objected to the smelly farm ?
If you are a true islander you would not be supporting it. Do you drink milk, eat veg, meat cereal, bread, pasta, etc etc. that all starts its life on the smelly farms to which you refer.
I object, mate, and my lot have been here since the sixteenth century. Local enough? And, no objection to a smelly farm. It’s a proper country smell, nipper. If you want a whiff of something more synthetic then inhale the additives of the marine fuel when you leave on the next ferry. Please.
How would you determine a “real Islander in 2022”?by family name? In that case most of Real Islanders surnames are usually associated with farming in one way or another! Do they support the loss of viable farm land? No! And along with 99.9% of any Islander see this development as not needed unless you are on the end of a big Brown envelope, so when did you receive yours?
The fact that this developement was even considered at all is unbelievably ridiculous.
The island does not, and will not ever, need another 900 second home families choking our roads and lanes in the rush to get to the mainland in their rush to get home or work,or to get dental treatment or hospital treatment, because they will only ever contribute to the house builders profits, and leech off the islands best parts. A totally ludicrous idea and developement. It must be stopped now, before it is too late.
So they plan to almost build another town !! Where is the hospital, doctors, dentist ???
Greed greed greed greed greed greed and bloody greed
We dont need them.do one
It shouldn’t be built, but, the Council will push it through, it doesn’t matter who objects. I notice ‘ol sausage Bob is being quiet on this, why isn’t he talking to the people of Ryde, and getting involved. He is the Islands MP I thought, not just for those “more affluent” areas, yes affluent not effluent.
what seek him here, seek him there Seely, does he know where Ryde is ?
he passed through it to go to Seaview in 2020
Well he was at the polish commemoration!!!!!!!
But nothing from him re the travesty regarding all the building of rabbit hutches etc or our infrastructure !!!!
Very poor for someone who calls himself our island MP …
What does MP mean????
Major P !!!! .
We all need to do whatever it takes to stop that crazy development!
This development is way too big and the island doesn’t need it or want it.
IOW Council, don’t pass the plans for this urban sprawl, please!
Lots of people claiming these will be 2nd home properties but they won’t, the government are importing 500,000 people every year and will be displacing local populations around big cities to house them – these displaced people are expected to then move out to other areas, the island being one of them – these massive estates are being built as a result of mass uncontrolled immigration, nothing else
Rubbish.
Where are these “displaced local populations” going to work when they get here? Or are they going to plant some kind of “magic money tree” in the garden to pay for the mortgage, bills, etc?
Most of these homes aren’t being bought up by “displaced local populations”. These are mostly bought by retirees moving here, 2nd homers, and people buying them as as holiday let investments. These people don’t need jobs on the Island.
There is one such ‘magic’ I can think of: home office. Both me and my partner work 100% remotely in our white collar jobs with corporate salaries, as – unsurprisingly – our fellow coworkers.
That’s a lot of NICs from way above average salaries being paid. Local services ordered, products bought.
That’s the future of work and a chance to bring back skilled workers with money back to villages instead of concentrating them in London. Brain-drain reverse mode 🙂
And many millennials from big cities have never even owned a car. Me and my friends included. You give us good public transport and cycling infrastructure and we won’t even be bothered to add more cars to your roads 🙂
Spot on. At last ONE person who can see AND say the real reason why the island is being ruined forever.
Build a HOSPITAL first !! Something this Island ACTUALLY NEEDS…
No point building a hospital unless you have staff to fill it and that is the biggest problem with St Mary’s. Not the lack of wards of operating theatres but the staff to run them. The Isle of Wight is widely known in the medical profession as the place where medical careers go to die.
Our island MP, Bob Seely should also object to this huge development. His Tory colleague, Michael Gove who’s job title is Housing and Levelling up Minister, just today stated on BBC National News: ‘houses must not be built in a shoddy manor and not in the numbers where the surrounding infrastructure cannot cope’.
WELL, THERE WE HAVE IT. Plain and simple from a senior Tory Cabinet Minister.
We all know the island’s infrastructure will not cope with the extra vehicles from 904 homes. IOW PLANNERS TAKE NOTE OF MR GOVE. REFUSE PERMISSION FOR P FEATHERS.