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Island Conservatives announce their candidates standing in the 2013 local elections.
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Just three weeks after tweeting about how wonderful the wildflowers in the verges must be for the butterflies we hear that the council are discussing new ways of cutting rural roadside verges in an attempt to preserve the wild flowers.
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Councillor cites best practise used by Devon as example for how Island Roads PFI contract can be used for environmental and social good.
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Cllr Seely says the development was far too big and there were too many unanswered questions about the project.
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Cllr Phil Jordan disputes claims in Cllr Seely's CP letter, commenting that they 'entirely misrepresented' his views on the importance of rural broadband.
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The councillor says he's sorry Island contractors were not in the mix and that he'd welcome plans to help Island companies get Island contracts in the future.
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The Isle of Wight Conservatives are asking the council to ring-fence £100,000 from the forthcoming 2014-15 budget for road safety initiatives.
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Residents concerned about this large-scale development will be pleased to hear it was rejected by councillors at last night's Planning Committee.
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We've yet to hear from the Group Leader the reasoning behind the 'boycott', but Independent councillor Steve Stubbings says that several Conservative members wanting to sit on advisory committees are being prevented from doing so.
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Developers have submitted an appeal with the Planning Inspectorate against the Isle of Wight council's decision to refuse an application to build 95 units of holiday accommodation.
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Speaking on the revised Blanchard's Field application, Cllr Seely says the development is "just too large in a village which has arguably already seen too much speculative house-building in the past few decades".
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Agents for the developer of a housing scheme in Brighstone met with residents yesterday to present the plans and hear feedback.
