YARMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL TO UNVEIL BID FOR VACANT PRIMARY SCHOOL BUILDING

Yarmouth Town Council will unveil its bid to buy a former primary school building next week — and it could involve housing.

Since pupils moved out of the Yarmouth CE Primary School in December last year, the site on Mill Lane has stood empty.

The Isle of Wight Council has marked the building as ‘surplus to educational requirements’ and it is now on the market as 2 plots. Unconditional bids are being accepted until 12:00 on 16th August.

Yarmouth Town Council (YTC) set up a steering group which listened to residents’ feedback to come up with ideas on how to best use the site and put together a bid for submission.

Councillor Steve Cowley, steering group chair, said it offers an exciting but challenging opportunity for the community to buy the site and regain the vitality which was lost with the closure of the school.

To bring life back to the site, YTC has previously said it would like to see an exhibition/educational centre; a new Scout and Guide hut; a boatshed for traditional skills training apprentices and affordable housing built on the playground.

More about the plans will be announced at a Town Council meeting next Tuesday (15th August) at 18:30 in the Community Hall Of Yarmouth District.

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Affordable housing on one of the prime waterside sites on the island? – that will do wonders for Yarmouth when it is packed full of priority housed dinghy arrivals and other overseas taxpayer funded home office guests

Housing forpeople with a local connection only which can be done through a s106 local letting agreement

If you are naive enough to believe that actually means anything then good luck with it – such agreements can be overridden with ease if the ‘need’ is considered great enough – chucking loads of people with no connections into an area creates an instant ‘need’ and has been used to give priority to home office guests up and down the country for many years – you will notice that none the imported demographic are ever left homeless for this very reason

Ha ha love your comment but you honestly know the snobby Yarmouth councillors would never have that

Build on it but must be cheap housing and not second homes for mainland people

This has developer written all over it .. YTC too little too late .. Yarmouth is finished and the IWC waited then got their wish. How’s the repayment of the loan for the replacement school going.

All smoke and mirrors. Waste money on feasibility studies for all of these stupid plans and then conclude that the best option is to sell the plot off to developers. Just sell off the plot and save our money by not paying the idiot consultants for feasibility studies that will say exactly what “certain people” want.