Later this month Today sees the deadline for residents’ views to be heard regarding a development on the site of 26 Bellevue Road, Ryde (VB readers will remember an article published last October regarding a previous application. Ed).
The Ryde North East Heritage Group have contacted VB regarding their fight against the plans for a development of sheltered housing in the road, consisting of 21 flats.
On a new Website, called RydeSore, the group state: “This is not a N.I.M.B.Y (not in my back yard) protest. We welcome development that is sensitive, appropriate, and in keeping with the historic area in which it is built.”
Legal obligations ignored?
They claim, however that this plan will endanger trees and block sea views, and that planners have failed to observe legal obligations in the planning process.
They urge concerned Islanders to contact the council before the end of today (10th March), so they can be considered at the Planning Committee on 23rd March.
Dedicated Website
The new Website, created by the group, is dedicated to protecting Bellevue Road, where council plans have been subject to controversy since 2009.
“The walls they’re looking to knock down for this are two hundred year old stone walls and if a young person did this they’d get an Asbo,” said group spokesperson Stella David. She added that the duties of the Heritage Group would supersede this campaign to safeguard more than 400 listed buildings in Ryde.
In July last year, VB reader Wighteducate, claimed on the VB Forum that development in the road would amount to ‘bijou dungeons’ for the elderly.
