Dilapidated buildings and a former boatyard overlooking an Isle of Wight harbour could be transformed.
Plans have been lodged by Mr M Meisels to rejuvenate land on Embankment Road in Bembridge, incorporating Bembridge Boatyard, Pilots House and Quayside.
The house and former commercial buildings could be demolished and replaced with 19 industrial units, used for general industrial or storage for boat maintenance, as well as a new house.
5 units could be built on the boatyard site and 14 on the Quayside, which would be an expansion of the neighbouring, and near-completed, Marine Works industrial site.
The business units could be made of green corrugated sheeting.
The proposed ‘Pilots House’, which could replace the existing accommodation of the same name, could include a media room, pool, 5 bedrooms and a roof terrace area.
The site looks out towards Bembridge Harbour and backs onto Brading Marshes.
Planning documents submitted to the Isle of Wight Council, on behalf of Mr Meisels by Dean Parkman Architecture, say the development is consistent with the character of the wider area and sympathetic to the site and neighbouring properties
They say it could also provide employment and economic opportunity.
You can view the plans, 23/01165/FUL, on the Isle of Wight Council’s planning register. Comments can be made until 25th August.
Bembridge is one of the Islands most expensive parts of the island
yet it is filled with Containers.
So much could be done to Bembridge Harbour.
Seafront apartments etc or a Grand Hotel
Or perhaps large ships placed around the Harbour as safe homes for refugees.
As kinder, more caring and well to do people live in Bembridge, then any backlash against such people would surely be lessened.
Then each of the largest homes could have one as free labour to do menial tasks, much as life was not too long ago.