Author: Sally Perry
Last Chance For Public Comments on Beachlands Development
Wednesday, 30th December, 2009 at 11:46 am, Isle of Wight
Community, News, Planning, Ventnor
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago on VB, the Ventnor Town Council (VTC) recently considered the revised application for the development of Beachlands on Ventnor Seafront.
The previous applications had been refused by the VTC, as was this revised version, on the grounds of over-development and not within keeping of the conservation area.
The public have until the end of Friday (1/1/10) to submit their comments on the application for the demolition of the existing building which has sat empty for many years and is proposed to be replaced with four town houses.
Revisions highlighted by agents
Some people who had objected to the previous applications have been contacted directly by the agents for the developer, who draw their attention to changes that have been made to the application.
These include items such as reducing the pitch of the roof from 45 degrees to 30 degrees and changing the ground floor windows, adding railings and shifting the parking to the back of the development.
If you wish to lodge a comment with the Isle of Wight Council, you can do so online or through the post quoting TCP/02147/N, P/00890/09 and sending it to:
Seaclose Offices
Fairlee Road
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 2QS
Image: Copyright Wayne Card Architectural Services
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There is an ‘architects impression’ photo on the IW Council site
It gives a pretty good idea of what this should look like.
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Thanks for that BigEars. Interesting angle to select to create the image from – even makes a large lorry which is considerably closer looks small!
Not many people in town walk around at that height do they? From floor level, the buildings are going to tower over people – just look at how small the estate car nearest to the building looks.
It’s quite simple in my view – the generations-old fragile balance of the Esplanade is ruined by building over two floors.
The Metropole has proved itself to be an over-sized mistake, not a precedent to allow other tall buildings to scar the seafront.
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There are lies, damn lies – and artists’impressions. However, this is not new – many of the idyllic scenes painted of Ventnor in the 1800′s left out the scruffy bits and put in trees that did not exist.
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Why is it that developers always have to build higher than the buildings that are there already? (beyond a desire to make more money of course!)
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Thanks to Dennis from CPRE for an update, which he left on the VB discussion forum
The planning committee endorsed the officer recommendations to refuse this application today.
Full details in due course.
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