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27th July – Isle of Wight Council Planning Committee
agree planning permission
CLLR GEOFF BRODIE JOINS 3 CONSERVATIVES,
CLLRS CHRIS QUIRK, MARTIN OLIVER AND PAUL BRADING,
IN SELLING OUT
CENTURIES OF ISLAND RURAL COMMUNITY
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCIL NEEDS TO BE TAKEN TO JUDICIAL REVIEW
IW COUNCIL PLANNING OFFICE, PLANNING COMMITTEE, MONITORING OFFICE AND LEGAL TEAM
– UNFIT TO REPRESENT ISLAND RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES ?
and let them know how you feel about this betrayal of all that makes this Island special,
and what you think of the conduct of the IW Planning Office, its Officers and the IW Planning Committee.
Future generations have a right to eat locally grown food. Save these fields from short-term exploitation by developers
Developers wish to destroy this ancient farmland for short term profit at the expense of current and future generations
All this looking west, and more fields out of shot to right, is targeted by developers. They even want to start destroying some of the ancient and protected woodland and copse as part of this planning application
TO SAVE WESTRIDGE FARM
6186 SIGNATURES ALREADY !!!
SPREAD THE WORD, GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO SIGN
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WESTACRE DEVELOPERS
POLLUTING NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ?
SOME THINGS IW COUNCILLORS NOT SHOWN
DURING THEIR SITE VISIT
CHECKOUT THE VIDEO AND PHOTOS BELOW !
BUILDING SITE WASTE & RUNOFF POLLUTING NATURAL BROOK, TREES AND HEDGEROWS !
SURFACE WASTE FROM OCCUPIED HOUSES AND ROADS BEING RUN INTO LOCAL BROOK !
IW Councillors who will decide the planning application undertook a site visit Friday 23rd July.
The Planning Officers made a point of showing the Councillors the newly built Westacre properties but omitted to show Councillors the developer’s disregard for the natural environment and the developers not adhering to past planning permission requirements.
Makes you wonder what the priorities of the IW Planning Office and its Officers are…
Formal complaints have been lodged with IW Council, more are to be lodged both with IW Council and The Environment Agency.
L/H – Run off to natural brook and tree line. R/H – Outlet from building site and new build properties
TOP – Run off to natural brook and tree line. BTM – Outlet from building site and new build properties
L/H – Run off to natural brook and tree line. R/H – Outlet from building site and new build properties
Outlet from building site and new build properties
Outlet from building site and new build properties
Run off from waste pit and building site flowing into tree line and natural brook
Outlet from building site and new build properties. Plus runoff from building site.
Outlet from building site and new build properties. Plus runoff from building site.
Increased soil erosion and exposure of tree roots from funnelled outlet of waste pit
Gully downstream of waste pit (to right) with non compliant pumping station access road
Gully downstream of waste pit flowing to natural brook, with pipe from pumping station to right
Pipe from sewage pumping station into gully downstream of surface waste pit (to upper right) flowing into natural brook
Pumping Station Access Road (not compliant with planning permission), waste pit upstream to right.
Pumping Station Access Road (not compliant with planning permission) cut into tree roots
Pumping Station access road built in cow’s field used by farmers. Road not compliant with planning (access road should be from Bullen Road)
This was greenfield and an IW rural asset for hundreds of years until the last IW Council administration gave planning permission. All the unbuilt properties in the bottom half of the picture we believe will have to be pulled down as they have been unsupported since building contractors left the site, electrical contractors have also left the site.
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CONTACT ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLORS
TO LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT SAVING WESTRIDGE FARM
– GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO CONTACT THE COUNCILLORS –
IT’S IMPORTANT THE COUNCILLORS KNOW HOW EVERYONE FEELS ABOUT SAVING WESTRIDGE FARM AND THE APPALLING CONDUCT OF THE IWC PLANNING OFFICE AND PLANNING COMMITTEE.
Westridge Farmland Community Initiative
(WFCI)
750 HAVE COMPLETED THE
HAVE YOU ?
– GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY –
– Let’s keep an Island for future generations we can be proud of !
IF APPLICATION NOT STOPPED 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 !
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 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 !
THIS PLANNING APPLICATION MUST BE STOPPED.
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 less than 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?