Planning Application Submitted by Developers
475 PROPERTIES
IF PASSED WILL FORCE CLOSURE OF FARM
AND PERMANENT LOSS OF ITS GREEN FIELDS
OBJECTIONS CAN STILL BE
AFTER 11th SEPTEMBER 2020
Please help us
protect this agricultural land
and its precious ancient wildlife habitat
valued and maintained
over 700 yrs since pre Doomsday Book
– Let’s keep an Island for future generations we can be proud of !
IF APPLICATION PASSED THE LAND WILL NEVER AGAIN PRODUCE
ORCHARDS, DAIRY, SHEEP, PIGS AND TIMBER
OR ANY OTHER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
WE WILL LOSE FOREVER GREENFIELD, ANCIENT HEDGEROWS AND HABITAT OF RED LISTED INTERNATIONALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES
ACTION IS REQUIRED NOW !
PLEASE SUBMIT AN OBJECTION !
DEVELOPERS AND OTHERS ARE NOW ATTEMPTING TO DESTROY FOREVER THIS PRECIOUS AND NOW RARE ISLAND HABITAT FOR QUICK SHORT TERM PROFIT
ROBBING CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS, AND WILDLIFE OF A NOW PRECIOUS ISLAND RESOURCE AND HABITAT
THIS LAND HAS FOR MANY GENERATIONS AND CENTURIES PROVIDED SUSTENANCE FOR THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY AND HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE, SOME OF WHICH ARE RED LISTED AND INTERNATIONALLY ENDANGERED
PLANNING APPLICATION IS IN FOR ANOTHER
475 PROPERTIES
IN ADDITION TO
86 PROPERTIES
ALREADY BEING BUILT ON PART OF THE FARMLAND
We all know things are not as they should be here on the Isle of Wight with decisions being made and things happening that shouldn’t…
So let’s get together and collectively do something about it !
NUMBERS MATTER !
– Please submit an objection
THIS PLANNING APPLICATION MUST BE REFUSED.
Save Westridge Farm (SWF) is a Community Action group located on the Isle of Wight, southern England. It was formed 2016 by island residents to stop so called ‘developers’ from destroying the ancient tenanted farmland known as Westridge Farm together with the precious ancient habitat and wildlife it maintains and supports.
Farming has been recorded at least as far back as the 13th century and the Doomsday Book.
There was once hundreds of farms on the island. Because of terrain this was mainly dairy, sheep and orchard in the eastern isle and arable elsewhere.
In one 20 year period the island lost over 80% of its dairy farms, with only 10 now remaining. All too often the land has been lost forever as agricultural or wildlife resource.
In living memory there were once 11 farms within a mile of Westridge Farm, now there is just Westridge remaining.
Westridge farmland has been put to many agricultural uses over the generations and centuries including:
Orchards, Provision of Timber, Sheep, Pigs and presently dairy.
The ancient hedgerows, pastures and environment is home to and provides for many endangered species, some of which are internationally red listed.
Please step forward
and take action if
YOU ARE AT ALL CONCERNED
about any of the following…
(Please note these are not intended as material considerations for planning objections. Please see elsewhere on this site for information about material considerations and examples you may wish is use.)
OVER DEVELOPMENT ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT…
– Want it to stop ?
DESTRUCTION & PERMANENT LOSS OF PRECIOUS HABITAT AND WILDLIFE…
– Want to put Nature and Environment before Profit ?
RESIDENTS & CONSERVATION BODIES BEING IGNORED…
– Want them to be listened to ?
QUESTIONABLE ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCIL DECISIONS…
– Want to hold Councillors and Isle of Wight Council to account ?
LACK OF INFRA-STRUCTURE & PUBLIC TRANSPORT…
– Want joined up, appropriate planning ?
FED-UP WITH LACK OF SERVICES FOR EXISTING RESIDENTS…
– Want existing need met before more building?
DEVELOPERS PROFITING AT OTHERS EXPENSE…
– Want development to benefit existing residents as well?
OVER SUPPLY OF 3, 4, 5 BEDROOM HOUSES…
– Want appropriate development?