An Isle of Wight-based former serviceman, turned mental health nurse, has been walking 500 miles across the UK to raise money for a veteran’s mental health charity.
The Isle of Wight Council will consider all planning enforcement tools available, it said, after a government task force slammed the authority’s efforts.
The task force has also slammed the Isle of Wight council’s policy for dealing with dilapidated heritage buildings in the town and said a more ‘radical’ plan was needed to .
The “single most significant issue”, government officials highlighted, was the presence of multiple dilapidated heritage buildings on the Esplanade and Culver Parade