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New Housing Development Proposed For Outskirts Of Newport

A new housing development has been proposed on the outskirts of Newport.

Weymouth-based company Betterment Properties have submitted plans for 46 homes — one-bed flats and two, three or four-bed houses — on Buckbury Lane, next to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The official number of homes, however, has not been decided and 46 is only a rough figure put to the Isle of Wight Council to demonstrate how the site could be used.

If 46 properties were built, a third — or 16 one-bed flats — would be affordable.

Outline plans have been submitted for the site, off Long Lane, only seeking permission for access to the site and whether a residential development would be acceptable in that location.

Other matters considered necessary by planners, including the appearance, landscaping, layout and scale, would all be determined through a later application.

Planning agent, BCM, on behalf of Betterment Properties, said in documents the site is ‘suitable, available and deliverable’ for new housing.

It also said it would not have a negative impact on existing residential amenities, trees, ecology, highways or foul and surface water drainage infrastructure.

You can view the application, 22/02032/OUT, on the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until December 16.
 

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