With demolition commencing now, construction at the former Branstone Farm site will continue for about two years. WORK has begun to demolish redundant farm buildings in preparation for the first phase of a project at the Isle of Wight Council s former Branstone Farm Studies Centre at Apse Heath. A range of Island businesses and organisations have been involved in creating a new £13.6 million scheme including affordable housing, an outdoor education area, new green space, and a new brewery and visitor centre for Goddard’s Brewery. Inspired by the Isle of Wight Biosphere declaration in 2019, a group of organisations and other local partners have secured funding and planning consents to begin the creation of a new rural area where the Biosphere principles of live, work and play can come to life.
From left, Southern Housing Group staff Kimberley Rooney, Naomi Keyte, Victoria Brent-Watson, Cllr Wayne Whittle and Tina Stuart. THE first residents have started to move into the 102 new extra care homes recently completed on the Isle of Wight. They are beginning to move into Morgan Sindall Later Living’s new £18m specialist residential scheme, Ryde Village. The development provides 102 extra care apartments and bungalows, making it the first of its kind on the Island. The 9,000sqm Ryde Village was delivered in partnership with Isle of Wight Council, Homes England, Funding Affordable Homes and Southern Housing Group one of the largest housing associations on the Island.