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Jonathan Bacon

Jonathan Bacon was elected in 2013 as Isle of Wight Councillor for Brading, St Helens and Bembridge. He was also Executive Member for Children’s Services and Corporate Governance and later became leader of the IWC.

He stood for reelection in 2017 but failed to gain enough votes. He was then elected as an Our Island councillor for Brading & St Helens and joined the Alliance Group to take power of County Hall. He is the Cabinet Member for Environment, Heritage and Waste Management.

Below are articles that he’s featured in.

School Consultation Meeting - Carisbrooke College

4, February 2015·3 min read

Parents told there’s unfinished business in Isle of Wight education (podcast)

Parents were able to find out more and share their views at last night's school consultation meeting held at Carisbrooke College. Listen to the recording if you weren't able to make it along.

24, February 2015·1 min read

Executive member resigned after not being consulted on staff restructure paper

Cllr Kendall was unhappy, that as Executive Member for HR, he was not consulted on the paper prior to it being discussed at the Employment Committee.

24, February 2015·1 min read

Council Leader: Planning IWC Executive ‘restructure’

The current Leader of the Isle of Wight council, Cllr Jonathan Bacon, has said that he "was planning to reconsider the structure of the Executive."

26, February 2015·2 min read

Pedestrians to be charged to travel on the Cowes floating bridge

Despite the Labour amendment to scrap the proposal to charge pedestrians on the Cowes floating bridge, members (including councillors for East Cowes and Osborne & Whippingham) voted through the new charging proposal at last night's full council meeting.

3, April 2015·5 min read

Illegal motions, ejections, casting votes and procedural irregularities: An unusual council debate

The rules of discussion in the council chamber are extensive and can be confusing - nonetheless, they must be followed. Question marks are being raised as to if they were breached on Wednesday, and whether that means a vote needs to be taken again.

8, April 2015·2 min read

Call to declare Isle of Wight ‘Frack Free’ fails due to legal concerns

Concerns it could open the council to judicial review led to 12 members abstaining and nine voting against the motion to declare the Isle of Wight 'Fracking Free'.

27, April 2015·2 min read

Temporary bridge for Shanklin Cliff Lift being considered

The Isle of Wight Council is looking at installing a temporary bridge to enable Shanklin Cliff Lift to open before the summer school holidays in July.

21, May 2015·1 min read

New Vestas production company named preferred bidder for Navitus Bay wind farm

Good news for blade manufacturing on the Isle of Wight as MHI Vestas Offshore Wind is named as preferred bidder for the proposed Navitus Bay wind farm.

30, June 2015·3 min read

Here’s what the council leader wrote to OnTheWight today … and our response

Yesterday OnTheWight straight-reported a publicly available document about a proposed Hampshire-wide Combined Authority with a questioning headline. It looks like the Leader of the Isle of Wight council didn't like that. We wonder why all of this wasn't public to start with?

23, July 2015·3 min read

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