An Isle of Wight Council officer removed a controversial Newport housing plan from a planning committee agenda due to advertised information “concerns”.
Strategic manager for planning and infrastructure delivery Oliver Boulter decided a re-advertised application for a 12 house development, including vehicle and pedestrian access, next to Landscape Lane on the edge of Newport would not be considered at Tuesday’s planning committee meeting.
Mr Boulter said:
“While a site visit was undertaken on Friday morning (September 20) by members of the planning committee, I have subsequently removed the item from the agenda due to some concerns around some of the information that has been advertised to the public around that application.
“As such we are taking steps to correct that information and allow a full and further, clear public consultation and I very much hope to be bringing that application to committee at the next available opportunity.”
Mrs C. Ferns’ application includes provision of “pedestrian crossing” on Staplers Road.
Her proposal was brought before the committee for consideration because it is considered to be contentious among the “wider Island communities” and has a potentially significant impact on its local area, according to Mr Boulter’s committee report.
The council first received the application on December 1, 2021, with multiple rounds of revisions put forward since.
Most recent changes uploaded to the council’s planning portal include adjustments to the boundary of the application site and general revisions to its block plan which were made public on September 13.
In a memo published on August 21, council ecology officer Carolyn Herbert referred to a revised Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) submitted by Woodside Tree Consultancy on August 12.
A PEA is a site assessment used to identify possible ecological constraints and ecological value within and next to a site, minimise or prevent impacts on biodiversity and to inform the scope of future ecological appraisals.
Ms Herbert said:
“Habitats on the site are limited, connectivity to wider habitats is weak and the hedgerow assessment indicates that hedgerows are not classed as ‘important'”.
The council has been approached for comment.
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