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The application to become listed as an asset of community value application could help save the last dairy farm in Ryde from closed to make way for 475 homes
Westridge Farm
The land at Westridge Farm is recorded as having been farmed for centuries.
A planning application for 473 houses by Captiva Homes – named West Acre Park – loomed over the tenant farmers, The Hollidays, who have been farming the land for over 50 years.
The Isle of Wight council Planning Committee approved the plans on 27th July 2021.
Below are articles relating to the application.
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There are ambitions for the farm to follow in the footsteps of others and become a community-owned farm, to "safeguard Westridge Farm for the future, for the benefit of food, the environment, ecology, the climate and the community"
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The councillors say the Island is "sleepwalking into a nightmare scenario" and that the planning department have to start listening to residents
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A petition has been launched calling for a halt to large-scale developments on greenfield land in Ryde. Full details within
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Cllr Lilley says there is no agreed master road infrastructure plan, and no plans for community/education/job creation/health infrastructure and adds that in his view, Ryde Town Council has been totally ignored
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Cllr Lilley will present a 4,000+ strong petition to the Isle of Wight council planning committee today, and explain legal advice about infringement of the children on the farm's human rights
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The landlord, Robert Ball, says the media coverage of about the tenant farmers is "not a fair or accurate representation of the situation". They refute the claims and counter it to "ensure total transparency"
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The application has over 400 objections and a petition was launched over the weekend appealing for further support against plans to build 473 homes on a currently working farm
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One councillor said, "This development is all about greed with no respect to the residents who have lived here for many years"
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The Isle of Wight Green party say that whilst the planned massive increases in house building will be a win-win for short term speculators, "Islanders and our countryside will certainly be the losers"
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The Nettlestone and Seaview Parish Council have joined the growing list of those objecting to the proposed 475-home development
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Captiva is looking to build the 475 houses over nine phases, which includes 116 social or affordable houses, a cafe, doctors’ surgery and office space
