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Plans For Houses Near East Cowes Primary School Back On Agenda Three Years After Rejection

Plans for houses near an East Cowes primary school are back again despite being rejected nearly three years ago.

The Sisters of Christ have once again put forward outline plans for 25 houses on Millfield Avenue, in a field next to Holy Cross Primary School, and part of its car park.

The Isle of Wight Council rejected the previous application for eight reasons, including removal of existing car parking provisions for the school, potential harm to a locally listed heritage asset and a significant increase in traffic on the junction of Old Road and Millfield Avenue.

Planning agents, Vail Williams, said the reasons for refusal have been addressed and the scheme now has an improved layout, scale and form of development.

Current car parking facilities would be relocated.

A new green space has also been proposed running through the centre of the site, to minimise the view of the development when looking from the nearby listed Millfield House.

The Sisters used to live in the former Springhill Convent but sold most of its land and buildings in 2016.

The housing application is proposed on the last parcel of land the Sisters own and could contain 16 market and nine affordable houses and bungalows.

In planning documents, Vail Williams says it will be a characterful development which extended the existing settlement footprint and positively integrates new buildings and landscapes.

The application is only seeking permission for the access, layout and scale of the development

The other appearance and landscaping will be determined at a later stage.

You can view the plans, 22/01051/OUT, on the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until March 17.

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