Cllr Mosdell’s ‘Roles should not be given out as sweets’ speech
Several readers have asked for a transcript of Cllr Clare Mosdell’s speech from last week’s full council meeting where spoke in favour of Cllr Steve Hastings being leader of the council, so here it is
At last week’s first full council meeting of the new Isle of Wight council since the 6th May election, Conservative councillor for Newchurch, Havenstreet and Ashey, Cllr Clare Mosdell, put forward her nomination for Cllr Steve Hastings to be voted in as Leader of the council.
Several readers who were following our live reporting (catch up here) have asked for a full transcript of Cllr Mosdell’s speech. We are happy to oblige and share below. Sometimes it can be hard to hear every word clearly when Cllrs are speaking to a time limit, so what is reproduced below is to the best of our ability given the recording was taken in a large sports hall and very echoey.
Opposition in village against holiday property plans rising
Residents in the village are concerned that noise issues will not be considered by the council and fear the development will set a precedent for more of the same
Residents have slammed plans to add more ‘unsympathetic’ holiday properties in St Lawrence, worried it will turn the area into a ‘holiday village’.
Proposals have been submitted to transform, what planning agents say is an ’empty and dilapidated’, St Rhadagund’s hotel on Undercliff Drive – turning the main 32-bed building into two houses while adding six three-bed two-storey tourism units on land to the rear of the property.