Rufus Pickles

3 days ago | islandecho.co.uk | Rufus Pickles

A new storage building will be built at the renowned Adgestone Vineyard. Planners have granted Mr and Mrs Broughton permission to construct a 14 metres long ‘metal frame structure’ clad in ‘dark green’ at the establishment, off Upper Road near Brading. The “well-established rural tourist attraction” has undergone “significant growth over the years”, a submitted Design, Access and Planning Statement says.

5 days ago | islandecho.co.uk | Rufus Pickles

A multi-national aerospace company could carry out works at its East Cowes facility to enable ‘continued investment’ in the business. GKN Aerospace has submitted a planning application to build an external mezzanine structure at its Falcon Yard building on East Cowes’s Ferry Road, to house new plant equipment.

5 days ago | islandecho.co.uk | Rufus Pickles

Two groups of opposition councillors last night tried to put a halt to increased housing targets for the Isle of Wight. The Conservatives and Empowering Islanders lodged a last-minute proposal opposing ‘significantly increased’ targets, which they said were being ‘imposed by central government through the Planning Inspectorate’. They said the figure already proposed to Government was ‘evidence-based in terms of deliverability in an Island setting and on Island need’.

6 days ago | islandecho.co.uk | Rufus Pickles

An Isle of Wight parish council has launched a renewed attack on a proposed name change to Wootton’s The Sloop Inn. Wootton Bridge Parish Council (WBPC) said renaming The Sloop Inn, a Grade II-listed pub dating from the 18th century, as ‘The Stonehouse at the Tide Mill’ would be a ‘misrepresentation’ and ‘confusing for patrons’. The local authority filed an objection against Boyer Planning’s application for new signage at the pub, made on behalf of Mitchells and Butlers.

6 days ago | islandecho.co.uk | Rufus Pickles

A large industrial building will be built at a well-established Isle of Wight service station to house 3 of its most valuable ‘heavy duty’ vehicles. County Hall has granted planning permission to Bartletts Service Station to construct a steel framed structure to provide undercover parking at Langridge Business Centre near Newchurch.