Since last week's schools decisions, I have been entirely focused on the Pan development planning application, which was at last lodged on 25 September. This is the biggest planning application on the Island in a generation - over 850 homes in the next 10-15 years - and if you didn't realise how important it was to the Council beforehand you certainly would if you saw the staggering pile of documents !
Anyway my work is now cut out advising local residents who might have comments or objections to make as the Council hurries headlong through what would be a record-breaking 8 week decision-making. The IWC Planning Committee is likely to consider the application in late November/early December.
Today government minister Jonathan Shaw MP, Minister for the South East (pictured with me), was on the Island and he popped over to Pan for a briefing on the development he was last briefed about in May last year. He later told me he was surprised that a brick still hadn't been laid, but he was delighted that we may now be getting a little closer to providing the much-needed 250+ affordable homes for Island families.
It was also very interesting how keen two Tory cabinet councillors were to meet a real government minister.......... I suppose after the Shadow Chancellor yesterday announced to the Tory Conference how if they ever get elected ordinary people would be paying pretty exclusively for the bank bailout, they have realised that the prospect of a Tory government minister visiting the Island has edged a little further away than it was beforehand........
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