Decision About Large Development Near Newport Football Ground Made

A decision has been made, but who’s involved is still unclear.

Decision About Development Near Newport Football Ground MadeThe delegated decision by Cllr George Brown – Deputy Leader of the Council & Cabinet Member for the Economy, Tourism, Leisure and Planning about the land near the Newport Football Ground has been made.

Which company / shop /supermarket it is remain shrouded in mystery.

All that we know it that, “the bid made by Party 1 for Plot A be accepted.” Plot A is the largest parcel of land.

We also now know that Plot B (quite small) will “be retained until the cost analysis of drainage proposals has been assessed and remarket if appropriate.”

Rumours are circulating as to who Party 1 might be. We’ve asked the council for confirmation, and are awaiting a response.


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Geoff Lumley
23, September 2016 1:02 pm

Well done Ed. The benefits of having an organisation committed to and interested in looking after the interests of the Island.

Steephill Jack
23, September 2016 8:16 pm

Conservative government policy is to make large-scale provision (to reduce costs) and let the user take the strain. This is caused by their austerity policy which pays interest to the banks who caused the financial crisis in 2008. We see it on the Island with the provision of large schools that require transport for pupils and now we see it happening with health provision. Why do people… Read more »

nico
24, September 2016 12:36 am

So “Engaging Local People” in this case means that only Hampshire have been given access to all these details, while it’s a case of ‘not in front of the children’ when it comes to us. “Part of this process will be to identify whether any of the proposals should generate a public consultation.” Are they kidding? Thank goodness for Ed Gouge and IW Labour Party. The potential… Read more »

Rowan
24, September 2016 7:31 am

Though some of this might be good if it means better services on the Island, the crucial point is the one in the Labout Party’s comments: ‘It is driven by a £719m funding gap and Jeremy Hunt’s obsession with a 7 day NHS without the resources to provide it’. We won’t solve this as long as we have a Conservative government who want to privatise the health… Read more »

Caconym
Reply to  Rowan
26, September 2016 12:21 pm

Unfortunately, for me at least, Labour have ruled themselves out by reinstalling Jeremy Corbyn as their leader and Vix Lowthion persuaded me not to vote for her (something I was considering) in the article on boundary changes where she suggested that some kind of anti-Tory alliance, restricting voters choice of candidate to prevent the Conservative candidate from winning.

Stewart Blackmore
24, September 2016 4:44 pm

This was one of the very serious points that the Labour Party made during the general election campaign and which was rubbished by Andrew Turner and the other Tories who were questioned about is. It says something that this very important report has to be exposed by the Labour party on the Island and it begs the very serious question whether our MP Andrew Turner will fight… Read more »

The Sciolist
26, September 2016 1:33 pm

The Labour party has lost the plot, it committed hari-kari

Caconym
Reply to  The Sciolist
26, September 2016 1:50 pm

Not yet it hasn’t, but it’s well on the way. The knife will truly plunge into the belly of the Labour Party when they start deselecting moderate MPs and replacing them with Momentum fundamentalists. Corbyn all but confirmed that this was going to happen in a not-so-veiled threat on the Andrew Marr Show (Allegra Stratton on the Peston show used exactly those words (not so veiled) when… Read more »

Geoff Lumley
10, October 2016 10:34 am

I see that the Council Executive are planning to push this through, unseen locally apart from Ed Gouge’s discovery above, on Thursday. Whatever happened to transparency and accountability ?

Kev
23, November 2016 11:00 am

Another reason we need a fixed link, that would give islanders cheap, fast, reliable travel to the mainland hospitals. Our contacts at St Mary’s told us this would happen a year ago, but no one believed us! Keep burying you’re heads in the sand and make out the island is doing ok without a fixed link, which is a 21st century way to travel the short distance… Read more »

Ohno_another_hijack
Reply to  Kev
23, November 2016 12:34 pm

Ah another secret smoke and mirrors fixed link fool! Your contacts may well not have the full picture anyway, So you think you will be better served at mainland hospitals? Not in my experience! The staff at St Mary’s are top notch in my book, the problem isn’t due to transport links, the whole NHS is in trouble, it is not purely our hospital that has issues!… Read more »

didyoureallysaythat
Reply to  Ohno_another_hijack
24, November 2016 10:50 pm

I find it very interesting that pro link people discuss facts, issues, concerns, where as anti-link just Ike to name call and base their ideas on hearsay and lack of real experience. I was born and raised on the island, left for work as there was nothing on the IOW for me, I have lived on 4 different continents, and just spent 6 years on the mainland… Read more »

Ohno_another_hijack
25, November 2016 3:43 am

Seems we are not that different then, 2 of my children are resident on the mainland after being well educated in 2 of the state schools on the island, I have worked all over the country but not so much abroad. Many of the infrastructure problems we face at peak times are likely to be made worse by the ease of a fixed link, the environmental issues… Read more »

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