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This from John Currie, Bembridge. Ed
Let us all focus on higher quality housing of the type we really need for local residents
On the Isle of Wight we are fortunate not to attract the larger scale developers who drop their ill-researched mass market homes onto the landscape like so many unwelcome cowpats on our green fields. However, we still could do more to attract homes for Isle of Wight residents that conform more strictly to local development plans.
Look beyond your own parish
It should be well worth looking at and commenting on plans outside one’s own parish and elsewhere in the Island where the developers fail to consider all aspects of their proposed buildings
Southern Water, like Thames Water, is under pressure financially and has already been unable to cope with the sewage discharged at Lane End and at St Helens old Church, Bembridge.
Affects a wider area
This affects all those using the seaside far to the East and West of these sewage discharge areas and we should all be urging all Councillors and Planning Officers to give their full attention to new development that would adversely affect our “specially affected” marine conservation area and also the popular sailing and swimming beaches from Sandown to Ryde as well as the Solent in general.
We must oppose larger developments
We need to stand firmly behind Bembridge Parish Council in refusing larger new developments and delay development until the reforms already in the pipeline until new legislation is passed that will give greater support to community development plans.
No longer merely a parish matter
I would maintain that residents in St Helens, Seaview, Ryde, Sandown and Brading would also be adversely affected by the project on Hillway Road and Steyne Road. This is no longer merely a parish matter.
Island councillors with any environmental cares cannot logically support this application as it stands.
