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Island Plan

The Island Planning Strategy sets out how the council’s planning decisions could contribute to achieving the council’s vision for the Isle of Wight.

It will deal with future needs and opportunities in relation to infrastructure, homes, jobs and businesses, community facilities and the environment.

It will also set out the principles that will guide future development, including housing and employment land.

Details about the draft Island Planning Strategy (Apr 22) can be found on the council’s Website.

Below are articles relating to the Island Plan

26, September 2022·3 min read

Council’s Planning Strategy and local developer under fire from ‘Build Better Bembridge’ campaign group

Bembridge councillor, Joe Robertson, says, "We have to take a stand and say enough is enough - we cannot accommodate another 180 additional properties”

26, September 2022·2 min read

New planning strategy will help us fight any plans for fracking, says councillor in charge of the environment

Cllr Bacon says the basis upon which changes to the Island Plan are proposed is "clearly severely flawed, will almost certainly take well over a year and will likely achieve nothing other than delay"

Claire Critchison standing on Undercliff Drive

23, September 2022·5 min read

Isle of Wight council chairman under fire for setting full council meeting when many councillors will be off the Island

Conservative councillors will be making their way home from the Party Conference (during a rail strike) and other councillors have said they can't attend either, but the Chairman says there are no other suitable dates in October

13, September 2022·3 min read

Cabinet member votes against Draft Island Plan arguing housing target too high for population growth

Cllr Jarman argues that as the Isle of Wight population has only increased by 2,100 people in the last ten years that the annual target for house building should be 70 new homes, not the 479 quoted in the Island Plan

7, September 2022·2 min read

Island Planning Strategy: Call for Cabinet to overrule committee’s recommendations

Cllr Robertson responds to the accusation that he's playing Monopoly with planning in Newport and calls for the Cabinet to overrule the Scrutiny Committee's recommendations

Vix Lowthion outside Nodehill VI Form Campus

6, September 2022·3 min read

‘We are not Cllr Joe Robertson’s monopoly board’ says Newport community councillor

Cllr Lowthion shares her concerns about the Conservative councillor's desire to move new housebuilding from Freshwater and Bembridge to Newport

2, September 2022·2 min read

Restrict second homes and remove housing sites in Bembridge and Freshwater say Scrutiny councillors

It is understood, should the proposed changes be refused, Conservative councillors would vote against the draft Island Planning Strategy, potentially blocking its adoption and delaying the process longer

Blueprints on table and man working on a laptop computer

28, June 2022·4 min read

Code of practice review for councillors and officers recommended as a matter of urgency, reveals Peer Review report

Speaking to more than 70 people over three days, the review was carried out by officers from other councils at no cost to the local authority

Shoulder of Mutton site in Newport - Google Maps

20, June 2022·5 min read

Isle of Wight Conservatives share their proposed changes to the Island Planning Strategy

Conservative councillors share their proposed changes to the draft Island Planning Strategy ahead of it being released to the Scrutiny Committee next month