A major County Hall decision-making body will tomorrow (Tuesday) decide on two of the Isle of Wight’s controversial recent planning applications.
The Planning Committee is due to vote on Mrs C. Ferns’ revised proposal for a 12 house development with vehicle and pedestrian access on the edge of Newport and a bid by Journey Estates Ltd to vary a development condition on its approved proposal for 44 houses on land to the east of Birch Close in Freshwater.
The 12 house development off Landscape Lane would comprise three bungalows, two four bed houses, five three bed houses and two two bed houses.
Recent revisions include an adjusted site boundary and general revisions to the application’s block plan, made public in September.
Mrs Ferns’s application has been brought to the committee’s attention due to it being ‘contentious’ among the ‘wider island communities’ and its ‘potential significant impact’ on the proposed development site’s neighbourhood, according to a council report.
The condition Journey Estates has sought to vary is the timing of a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) for double yellow lines on the southern side of Birch Close at its junction with the development site’s access and junction with Colwell Road and on Colwell Road at its junction with Birch Close.
County Hall said the TRO should be secured prior to the start of development in the interests of highway safety and to be in line with the Island Plan Core Strategy, the Isle of Wight’s planning policy framework.
The developer is hoping to change the condition to a TRO being secured and implemented prior to the occupation of the proposed housing.
The Birch Close proposal will be voted on following a request for it to be considered by Cllr Chris Jarman, representative for Totland and Colwell.
Cllr Jarman’s reasons for Planning Committee deliberation included a previous rejection of an application to remove the condition, the committee’s original attaching of the condition and the application being ‘contentious’ with ‘material objections and concerns’ including ‘safety’ and ‘significant community impacts’.
He also said varying the condition would set a ‘precedence’ for ‘past, present and future’ planning applications across the Island.
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